Lachlan Brooks is an actor and writer based in New York City. She holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2017, she received the Tisch “Artist and Scholar Award.” She has studied drama at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, film at Stonestreet Studios, and Shakespeare at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Current projects include Muse, an experimental assemblage of Shakespeare texts devised with collaborator Brandon Cobalt, which first appeared at The Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice in 2016 as part of a Shakespeare-themed season. See her resume and for more, or view her profile on Backstage.
As a poet, Lachlan’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals and magazines including Poet Lore, Shiela-Na-Gig online, Chronogram, The Remembered Arts Journal, and Crack the Spine’s Year Anthology. She has just completed her first full-length collection. For a list of selected poems, including some available to read online, please see the poetry page.