Selina Fillinger (born 1994)[ Selina Fillinger. nordiska.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 April 2025.] is an American playwright, TV writer, and screenwriter.
Early life and education
Fillinger was born in Berkeley, California.
She is
Jewish.
When she was three her family moved to Eugene, Oregon, where she grew up. She went to South Eugene High School before attending Northwestern University, where she studied acting and playwriting.
While at Northwestern she received the first Judith Barlow Prize, an annual student award given to work inspired by a historic female playwright.
She was one of three playwrights selected for Northwestern's
Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival, two years in a row.
Career
During her senior year at Northwestern, Fillinger was commissioned by two local theaters, Northlight Theatre and Sideshow Theatre.
Her play
Faceless was produced at Northlight in January 2017 and was Fillinger's first professional production, opening only six months after she graduated.
Her Sideshow commission,
Something Clean, premiered at the Roundabout Underground in New York in 2019 and opened in Chicago a few months later.
Her play , premiered on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre in 2022, making Fillinger, at 28, one of the youngest playwrights to be produced on Broadway.
In 2022 Fillinger joined Apple TV+’s The Morning Show as a staff writer on the third season.
Awards and honors
While still a student, Fillinger won the Agnes Nixon Festival and the Judith Barlow Prize. In 2019, her play
Something Clean received the Laurents/Hatcher Award and her play
Cinched/Strapped won the Williamstown Theatre Festival L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award.
made the 2019 Kilroys' List and the Broadway production was nominated for three
Tony Awards.
Fillinger has been a Hawthornden Fellow and a resident of McCarter's Sallie B. Goodman Artist's Retreat.
Works
Theater
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Something Clean
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The Armor Plays: Cinched/Strapped
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Faceless
Television
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The Morning Show, Apple TV+, season 3
