Adriane Raff Corwin

Adriane Raff Corwin is currently a Faculty Associate for the Sidney Poitier New American Film School. She graduated with a MFA in Theater - Dramatic Writing from Arizona State University and also holds a MA in Political Science - Futures Studies from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

In her scripts, she combines her passions for comedic storytelling and politics to examine how we’ve been taught to look at the world. Her ten-minute play, “How to Save the Polar Bear,” was selected for the 2020 Theater Masters TAKE TEN Festival and was published by Concord Theatricals-Samuel French in 2021. She has been a regional finalist twice for the 2020 and 2021 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award, a semi-finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Awards Playwriting Fellowship. Her full-length play "en-DANGER!-ed" was recently workshopped in the Festival of New American Theatre at The Phoenix Theatre Company. She is currently working on a feature-length screenplay that takes place at South Mountain.

Adriane is also an experienced improvisational actor. She studied long-form improv and musical improv at the Magnet Theater in New York City, as well as at iO Theater and The Second City in Chicago, where she worked with some of the best teachers of the forms.