Hal Cosentino

Hal Cosentino (he/him) is a transgender writer, performer, and educator. 

Plays: Alpharetta Lost (2026 O’Neill Semifinalist, 2025 Terrence McNally Incubator Finalist, 2025 Playwrights’ Center Core Apprenticeship Finalist); Once In A Hundred Years (2025 O’Neill Semifinalist, 2025 UT-Austin academic production); Oh, Buddy (2024 O’Neill Finalist, published in Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Vol. 2); Lineage (2023 O’Neill Finalist). 

Performance: Hal has performed in his own work, including Oh, Buddy and Godfriend. Also: Very Blue Light by Daphne Silbiger; Family Reunion conceived by Nora Sharp; Raymondo by Annie Siddons; Everybody by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins.

Teaching: Hal is currently the Murphy Fellow in Playwriting at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. In the summer, he teaches at Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Education: B.S. in Theater from Skidmore College, with training from SITI Company and the Moscow Art Theatre School. M.F.A. in Playwriting from The University of Texas at Austin.

Hal often collaborates with his art/life partner, Ellenor Riley-Condit under the name Double Text.