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Whitney Rowland is a Minneapolis-based game writer, playwright, and screenwriter. She worked as a Scriptwriter with Ubisoft Shanghai and Massive Entertainment on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, a AAA open-world action / adventure game, released in December 2023. Currently, she works with Ubisoft Quebec on their upcoming Assassin’s Creed title, Codename Red.
As a playwright, Whitney has been a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a finalist for the UMass PlayLab, shortlisted for the Theatre503 New Play Award (London, UK), as well as a finalist for both the Jerome Playwriting Fellowship and the Core Writer program at the Playwrights’ Center. Her plays have been developed at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Mid-America Theatre Conference, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festivals (regional and national), Great Plains Theatre Conference, and PlayPenn New Play Development Conference, where Whitney was named a 2019 Haas Fellow. Her work has been produced at Synchronicity Theater, Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Minnesota Shorts, Northwest Children’s Theater & School, as well as colleges and universities around the country.
On the screen side of things, Whitney’s kids' sports feature-length screenplay THE BUZZBOTS was a winner in the 2017 CMU/Sloan Screenwriting Contest, earning her a $7,500 grant. Her family drama THE WAY UP was a 2016 finalist for the same award.
Whitney holds a Bachelors from the University of Kansas and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, son, and very old (and very wise) cat.
