ELLA KOHLMANN

is a playwright and arts administrator based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Quebec. She is currently studying playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada, and before that received a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Creative Writing at Concordia University.

As a playwright, Ella sees the theatre as the perfect place to cultivate the underappreciated art of uncertainty— to ask questions and explore problems that are too big to solve in one night, and play out our most painful, hopeful, terrible, desperate efforts to live with one another in the meantime. Most recently, she's been obsessed with the questions: what can we learn from guilt? And how do we choose between our own needs and the needs of others?

Her plays are frequently genre-infused (horror, sci-fi, magic realism) but they are at their core intimate stories about people and relationships.