Ty Greenwood (they/he) is a Black queer artist who holds a B.A. in Communication Arts with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Honors in Theatre from Washington & Jefferson College ‘17 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University ‘20, in Dramatic Writing. In 2013, Greenwood landed a four-year scholarship/apprenticeship with KDKA TV- News Pittsburgh where they wrote anchor packages and helped produce the “Pittsburgh Today Live Show,” through the Emma Bowen Foundation, an organization that places college students with a corporate sponsor with a goal of promoting diversity in the media. In 2016, their short film “Fuzzy on the Details” was entered into the British Film Festival. The same year they also received the “Ubuntu” Emma Award through the Emma Bowen Foundation for their sense of community and promotion of diversity and togetherness in their work. They have presented their short play, “NOT A FAIRY TALE,” and research, “Protecting our Black Men: Black Masculinity and the use of the Black Body in 'For Black Boys Who Have Considered Homicide…’", at the Mid-America Theatre Conference ‘18. They developed and had a staged reading of their full length choreopoem play, “DEATH DREAM,” at Alumni Theatre Company ‘19. They participated in City Theatre’s 2019 Momentum Festival: New Plays at Different Stages where Ty presented an excerpt of “Untitled Thesis Play” as part of the “In Their Own Voices” event. Recently, Ty was selected as the inaugural recipient of a commission from the Kemp Powers Commission Fund for Black Playwrights ‘20 through City Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, in Sarasota, awarded Ty its first Ground Floor Playwright Commission to pursue a new work they’re developing inspired by black gay writer and activist James Baldwin ‘20, and was commissioned by The Hansberry Project '21 to develop new works for The Drinking Gourd: Black Writers at Work. This multi-year project aims to develop a coalition of five black theatres with shared goals to commission, develop, and premiere works by black artists at theatres across the country. Ty’s work focuses on telling stories that are not damaging to the identity, existence, and bodies of Black people, but are rather empowering, unapologetic, and radical in nature.