Hannah Verdon is a Chicago-based playwright. She was a part of the Trellis Residents at the Greenhouse Theater in Chicago; her plays have been presented at readings across the city, including Elite, which was presented at Writers Theater, and a ten-minute version of Eleanor Absolute, which was presented at Victory Gardens Theater’s College Night. Her full-length The Graces, which was also presented as a staged reading, won Northwestern’s 2014 Agnes Nixon Playwriting Competition. Other performed plays include Susie and the Mind Stealers (Dusty Theater), Super Super Bomb (Wirtz Center Ten Minute Play Festival) and Mouse (Trailblazers in TYA). She is a 2-for-2 semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference. B.A. Northwestern University, summa cum laude.
