Salwa Meghjee is a playwright from Orlando, Florida. Her work tries to illuminate and soothe the big feelings we all experience and struggle to explain. Her plays include U-Haul Mesbians (2023 O’Neill National Musical Theater Conference Semi-Finalist), Ender’s Gay (2024 Fault Line Theater’s Irons in the Fire Finalist, 2024 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, 2024 Dramatists Guild Fellowship Finalist), The Conference of the Birds (Mudlark Theater’s That’s How We Grew the World Festival), Word Play (The Once and Future Festival), and, written with her twin sister Samah, The Mysterious Mystery of the Lost Letters (Brooklyn Publishers). She co-founded the feminist theatre company The Golden and served as its Artistic Director for three years. In New York, she has worked with Sanguine Theatre Company, Trove, Needy Lover, and 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. She is a Core Apprentice at the Playwrights’ Center, a Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab 24-25 Cohort Member, and a 24-25 New Victory LabWorks Artist. She is currently a fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard, and holds a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University.