Jelisa Jay Robinson is a Black American playwright from Houston, Texas.  Her plays include The Stories of Us, Fae and Paciencia and Delivery.  Her work has been developed and/or presented at The Billie Holiday Theatre (50in50), Fade to Black (Houston), Teatrx (Houston), 14/48 Theatre Festival (Austin), Austin One Minute Play Festival (Austin), the Austin Latino New Play Festival, Teatro Vivo (Austin), Now Africa Festival (New York), The Black and Brown Theatre (Detroit), The Rec Room (Houston), the Echame Un Ojo Festival (commission), Fornes Playwriting Workshop (Chicago), The Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration (San Marcos), The Landing Local (Houston)and Vision Latino (Chicago). She is a finalist for the La Mansion Baldwin Writers Residency in France (2020), a Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist (2020), a finalist for the Seattle Public Theatre New Play Prize (2017), a writer in the Rec Room Writers Group, a two time Fulbright Alternate and an alumni of the Fornes Playwrighting Workshop where she worked under the tutelage of Migdalia Cruz. Jelisa has held residencies with Vision Latino Theatre Company (Chicago), the National Playwrights Retreat (Colorado) and Texas State’s Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration.   She is a theatre educator and the co-founder of the Love Guru’s, a group dedicated to promoting self-love and artistic agency in the greater Houston area and beyond. Jelisa has hosted writing workshops at Texas State University, University of Texas - RGV and other spaces in the Texas area.    She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and ScriptWorks.

Select plays can be read on National Play Exchange.