Rose Courtney is a playwright and actor who received her training at Vassar College, RADA, and the Eugene O’Neill Center’s National Theatre Institute. After College, she completed the two year professional training program created and taught by Mike Nichols, George Morrison and Paul Sills at New Actors Workshop.

 

Rose's plays have been developed and staged at Circle Rep Lab, New York Theater Workshop, Threads Theatre Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Theater at St. Clement’s, Lamb’s Players Theater, and others. Her comedy writing has been performed at Caroline's, The Improv, Stand-Up New York, and The Duplex. She has been the recipient of a Field Artist Development Grant from The Field, and has received critical praise from a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine.

 

As a performer, Rose has appeared in New York and regionally in plays by authors as varied as Shakespeare, Coward, Chekov, Ionesco, Ibsen, Horton Foote, Paddy Chayefsky, and Deborah Brevoort. She has danced for choreographers Karole Armitage, Victoria Labalme, and aerialist Laura Sheehy, and has occasionally sung a song. Screen appearances include recurring roles on television as well as English and French language films by directors Frank Oz, Alexander Olch and Farouk Thoyer.

 

Rose serves on the Board of Directors of Keen Company, an award-winning NYC theater company creating narrative-driven work that provokes identification, reflection, and emotional connection. She is a member of The Actors Center and the Dramatists Guild as well as the actors’ unions. She lives in her native New York City.