Phillip Gregory Burke

Phillip Gregory Burke is a Black American of Haitian, Creole and Gullah-Geechee descent, artivist, actor and playwright. Plays: The Suncatchers of Sahel: Part I (Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow finalist, Princess Grace Award Playwriting Fellowship semi-finalist), The Suncatchers of Sahel: Part II (Semi-finalist: The Princess Grace Award Playwriting Fellowship, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival), The Simaraboo Two, A Holy Her (Playwrights Realm semi-finalist), He’s The First (Inaugural winner Improbable Fiction Award Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, top 13 48th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival finalist, streamable on All Arts/PBS), and I’m The First! He is a co-founder of DIEZ and won the 2024 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Arts Fund, National Black Theatre SOUL Series Cohort, Summer Jam Inaugural Fellowship. Memberships: Dramatists Guild, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, Latinx Playwrights Circle. Residencies: Theatre 4the People, The Civilians R&D Group, Roundabout Theatre Company. MA: Classical and Contemporary Text, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. BFA: Drama, BS: Sociology – Syracuse University.