Ally Merkel is a Brooklyn-based playwright. She writes funny language-obsessed plays for fast talkers. Ally has developed plays with the Under Construction Playwrights Group at The Road Theatre Company and with The COOP’s Clusterf**ck vol 3 working group. Ally is an alumna of Theater Masters’ National MFA Playwrights Festival “Take Ten” (2024) and of the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals program (2022). She is a 2024 National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist and a 2023 Seven Devils Conference finalist. Her short play Carrots, about a teenage boy who wants his best friend to bite off his finger, has a forthcoming publication with Concord Theatricals. Ally’s work has also been seen at The Tank, The Fled Collective, New Perspectives Theatre Company, and The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues. She has a BA in political science from Kenyon College and is currently pursuing an MFA in dramatic writing at NYU.