Truly Siskind-Weiss Bristol/New York, United Kingdom

Truly Siskind-Weiss is a UK based playwright, actor and solo performer from New York City. Truly graduated from Connecticut College with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and American Studies. She has a masters in dramatic writing from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. During her master’s program, Truly wrote Seeing You, a short radio drama that was recorded at Christchurch studios in Bristol. Her play It’s Not Goodnight was featured in Bristol Old Vic Theatre’s “Writer’s Bloc,” a festival showcasing staged readings of new plays. Truly has worked with Manhattan Theatre Club, The Cherry Lane Theatre, and The Colonial Theatre of Rhode Island. Her plays have been performed at Cherry Picking, an annual new play festival, where she has also lead a new work reading series. During the pandemic, she wrote lyrics for Our Mutual Voices, a contemporary opera project produced by the Manhattan School of Music. 

A strong feminist, Truly writes pieces for stage, radio, and screen that amplify women’s stories. Her work speaks to the experience of coming of age as a woman in a patriarchal world, and engages with themes of sexuality, loss of innocence, and grief. Truly’s ultimate goal is to create the characters she needed when she was a teenager.