Tessa Saito King is a Japanese American playwright, poet, and screenwriter. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, she received her B.A. from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and an MFA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
She had her first one act produced at the age of fourteen and her first full-length produced at seventeen. Since then, her plays and one-acts have been commissioned, staged, and performed throughout America and the United Kingdom. Most recently she was commissioned to adapt her play NOISE for the screen.
She is the winner of PlayGround’s Young Playwrights Festival, a two-time finalist in the Marin Young Playwrights Festival at Marin Theatre Company, semi-finalist for the Mu-Tang Clan Residency at Theatre Mu, and longlisted for the Royal Court Writer’s Group at the Royal Court Theatre. Her poems “Testing” and “Killers” both won awards and received publication.
