Selina Fillinger

Selina Fillinger was born into a Jewish family in Berkley, California spent the majority of her childhood in Eugene, Oregon before attending Northwestern University. Studying acting and playwriting at Northwestern led to the start of her professional career, being the first recipient of the Judith Barlow Prize (an award celebrating a student-made, original one-act play inspired by the work of a historic woman playwright) as well as having her work featured, two years in a row, at Northwestern's Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival (which focuses on the creative development of three new undergraduate plays).

At the end of her senior year, she received commissions to produce her works in Northlight Theatre (Faceless in January 2017) and Sideshow Theatre (Something Clean premiering at the Roundabout Underground in New York in 2019). Following her young success, at just 28 years old, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive premiered on Broadway (Shubert Theatre; April 2022). The play received three Tony nominees and made her one of the youngest playwrights to have their work produced on a Broadway stage.