Bridgette Dutta Portman is a playwright and novelist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. More than two dozen of her plays have been produced locally, nationally, and internationally. She is a member of the Pear Theatre board of directors, the Pear Playwrights' Guild, and the Dramatists' Guild. She received the 2023 June Anne Baker Prize from PlayGround, and has been a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival, the Theatre Bay Area TITAN award, the PlayPenn Conference, the Kentucky Women’s Theatre Conference Prize for Women Writers, the New Dramatists playwrights' residency, and more. She holds an MFA in creative writing (Spalding University, 2018) and teaches composition and creative writing at UC Berkeley's College Writing Programs. As a novelist, Bridgette is represented by Lee Melillo of Speilburg Literary.

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