Agnes Borinsky

Agnes Borinsky is an American playwright and author, who wrote the young adult novel Sasha Masha, a coming-of-age story about a queer Jewish American girl, nominated for a Lambda Award in 2021. She wrote and performed in A Song of Songs in 2022, which retold through a queer lens the biblical book Song of Songs. In 2023, her play The Trees premiered at Playwrights Horizons' theatre; the work imagines the lives of siblings whose bodies root into the earth in a Connecticut park. This work was compared to Waiting for Godot, Sagittarius Ponderosa and How to Live in a House on Fire.