Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 07, 1975
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Credits
18 titles
Bess Wohl
Biography
Bess Wohl (born 7 September 1975, Brooklyn, New York City) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard (BA in English, 1996) and earned an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama. She is best known for Liberation (2025–2026), which won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, the Drama League Award, and the Hull-Warriner Award, making her only the fourth female playwright to win the Tony for Best Play. Her other plays include Small Mouth Sounds (2015, Drama Desk Sam Norkin Award), Grand Horizons (2020, Tony-nominated), and Make Believe (2019). She directed and wrote her feature film debut Baby Ruby (2022). In acting she has appeared in Flightplan (2005) and The Shaggy Dog (2006), and has guest roles on Law & Order, CSI: NY, Bones, and Cold Case. Small Mouth Sounds is returning to Broadway in spring 2027 directed by Joe Mantello.
Known For
Filmography
Extrapolations
Writer
Baby Ruby
Director
Irreplaceable You
Executive Producer
Siren
Agnes Tobin
Coach
Gretchen
Private Practice
Amy Larson
Shark
Natalie Burke
The Shaggy Dog
Dr. Gwen Lichtman
Ghost Whisperer
Anna Fowler
Flightplan
Katerina
Bones
Amy Hollister
Must Love Dogs
Rebecca
Heights
Juilliard Lady Macbeth
Numb3rs
Laura Stirling
CSI: NY
Kendall Novak
Cold Case
Sara Lowell (1981)
Law & Order
Gia Whitchurch
Liberation
Writer