AJA NISENSON is a playwright, singer and performer based between New Jersey, LA and Dublin.
Her plays include: Slap (Take Ten, National MFA Playwrights Festival), Park Slope Under Water ( Iowa New Play Festival), The Wait (Iowa New Play Festival), Funk (Iowa Playwrights Workshop), Love (Iowa Playwrights Workshop), Piccola Cosi (FringeNYC, soloNOVA Arts Festival, Triad Theatre), Daja Vu, A French Cabaret Gone Awry, (Eugene O’Neill Cabaret Conference, FringeNYC, Flute Bar Gramercy) My Life is a Woody Allen Film (United Solo Theatre Festival, EstroGenius Festival), Five Years Later (Salem Theatre).
She is a MacDowell fellow and has held fellowships at the Eugene O’Neill Cabaret Conference and The Marble House Project. She is published in Theater Masters’ Take Ten Vol.4 with Samuel French, and received the 2019 Jane Chambers Student Playwright Award. Aja received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop.