Temídayo Amay

Tẹmídayọ Amay is a Black Trans Non-Binary writer, composer, actor, and queer activist. Their publications have been featured in American Theatre Magazine, The Washington Post, and DC Theatre Scene. Amay’s plays have been developed alongside the Obie Award-winning Breaking The Binary Theatre Company, Musical Theatre Factory, Solas Nua, Theatre Alliance, The Clarice, and Brooklyn College/CUNY.

Temidayo is a 2023 Breaking the Binary New Works Program Playwriting Fellow, 2023 Theatre Producers of Color Producing Fellow, 2023-24 Musical Theatre Factory Makers Cohort III Playwriting Fellow, Harriet Tubman Effect’s inaugural Lantern Executive Coaching Program award recipient, and 2023-4 Obie Award-winning MAESTRA Music Musical Theatre Writing Mentee. Their production of Marcus Gardley’s black odyssey won four Audelco Awards including Best Play (dir. Stevie Walker-Webb). In 2020 Temidayo Amay won the inaugural non-gendered Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Play for Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls. Amay is a 2020-21 Resident Playwright with the Reclamation Project DC at Round House Theatre and The Kennedy Center, respectively. They are the 2020-21 Quadrant Playwright in Residence for their play POOL at the Theatre Alliance. 

Temidayo is the founder of PILOT, Washington D.C’s first playwright-producing collective. They are a founding board member of TEMPO, the Trans Expansive Music Professionals Organization, and have been the acting facilitator for Musical Theatre Factory’s Trans Non-Binary monthly writer’s roundtable since October 2021. Temidayo Amay is a resident community healer for the Black Trans Liberation Kitchen and a Helen Hayes Award-winning performer

Temidayo Amay received a B.A. in Theatre from The University of Maryland, College Park. temidayoamay.com