Alyssa Velazquez
Writer - Curator - Creative Director
Photo by Drew Baron
Alyssa Velazquez is a cultural historian, playwright, actress, and writer of gender, performance, and material culture.
Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Matieral Intelligence, The Tower, Scraps Literary Journal, The Establishment, AutoStraddle, GRLSQUASH, The Fashion Studies Journal, Women’s History Magazine, Juggad: A Material Religions Project, and the Votive Project. Past residencies include Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices 2024, City Books Writer-in-Residence, and as a Freshworks Artist at Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a proud member of Dramatists Guild of America.
She holds a MFA from the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, and a BA from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
Currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
