Bridgette Dutta Portman

Bridgette Dutta Portman is a playwright and novelist. More than two dozen of her plays have been produced locally, nationally, and internationally. She is president of the Pear Theatre board of directors and a member of the Pear Playwrights' Guild, the PlayGround SF writers pool, and the Dramatists' Guild. She received the 2023 June Anne Baker Prize from PlayGround, and has been a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival, the Theatre Bay Area TITAN award, the PlayPenn Conference, the New Dramatists playwrights' residency, and more. Her young adult fantasy trilogy, The Coseema Saga, was published in 2021-23 by Titan1 Studios. She holds a PhD in political science (UC Irvine, 2011) and an MFA in creative writing (Spalding University, 2018). She is excited to teach composition and dramatic writing at UC Berkeley.