Caitlin Saylor Stephens

CAITLIN SAYLOR STEPHENS is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work explores the darkly comedic and brutal realities of American womanhood.

Her play Five Models in Ruins, 1981 recently premiered Off-Broadway in a sold-out run at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, directed by Morgan Green and starring Elizabeth Marvel. Originally commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, the play was developed during Stephens' tenure as an LCT3 New Artist-in-Residence (2019–2025).

Since 2008, Stephens has written more than twenty-five full-length plays, including When Went Electronic and Modern Swimwear, which have been developed and produced with support from Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, The New York Women's Fund for Media, Music and Theater, The Lark Play Development Center, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Jerome Foundation, The Flea, Dutch Kills, The Whiting Foundation, and others. 
Her work has been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Bruntwood Prize,  and has been recognized as a five-time finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill, a three-time finalist for New Dramatists, and a two-time Honorable Mention on The Kilroys List.

Stephens has received commissions from Lincoln Center Theater, EST/The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and NYSCA for Five Models in Ruins, 1981, Bunnies, and Jason. She has been an artist-in-residence at UCross, Headlands Center for the Arts, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Sewanee Writers' Conference (Romulus Linney Fellow), LCT3, and New Georges, where she was an Audrey Resident, Affiliated Artist, and a member of The JAM. In 2026, she was named one of  Festival d'AIX Women Opera Makers under the mentorship of director Katie Mitchell.

She teaches in the MFA Visual Narrative program at the School of Visual Arts. Stephens earned her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and is represented by WME.