Pravin Wilkins is a playwright, poet, and fiction writer from San Diego, California, whose works typically deal with race & class struggle--and the many intersections between. He began writing plays in the mid 2010s, during his time at the University of California, San Diego. There, he received the faculty nominated Eric Bowling Award for his site-specific protest piece, #takebackgraffitihall. After graduating, he continued his playwriting journey by traveling to Pittsburgh in 2018 to pursue a master’s degree at Carnegie Mellon University. In May 2020, Pravin received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from the CMU School of Drama; since then, he has received significant national & international recognition, having been selected as a finalist for the 2020 O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference & subsequently winning the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award for his first full length play, Moreno (which is now set for its world premiere in London). His most recent work, Bars, was workshopped in Spring 2020 as part of Carnegie Mellon’s New Works Series & digitally debuted in October 2020 through Four Walls Theater. He recently completed his term as a Fall 2020 Writer-in-Residence at City Books in Pittsburgh, where he is continuing his work as a writer, educator, and activist.
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