Renée Darline Roden (Project Y Writer’s Group 2015-2016) penned her first play at ten years old on a 1985 IBM Actionwriter and hasn’t looked back. Renée’s work has been produced at Open Booth Theatre Company, the University of Notre Dame, and The Tank and developed at The Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place, and Triskelion Arts. Her writing has appeared in Howlround, the Santa Clara Review, and America Magazine. She is currently a graduate student in Journalism at Columbia University and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA ’14, MTS ’18).