Torrey Townsend is a Brooklyn-based playwright known for bold experimentation with theatrical form and sharp critiques of power structures within American society and the arts. His most recent play, Jewish Plot, was named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Shows of 2025, hailed by Helen Shaw (The New Yorker) as “genuinely exhilarating” for its “tonal and structural switchbacks,” and by Fran Hoepfner (New York Magazine) as “searing and provocative… the spiritual equivalent of doing the Wim Hof method.” Townsend’s other works include The Workshop (2017), which premiered to unanimous critical acclaim, earning a New York Times Critic’s Pick, Voice Choice, and TONY Recommendation; Off Broadway (2021), directed by Robert O’Hara and produced by Jeremy O. Harris, also named an NYT Critic’s Pick; Executioners (2020), a short play written for the anthology One Room and directed by Celine Song, which earned another NYT Critic’s Pick; and Night Workers (2018), developed at Long Wharf Theatre’s Contemporary American Voices Festival. Townsend is currently adapting Jonathan Lethem’s novel The Arrest into a feature film and has been commissioned by Kaplan Morrison (producers of The Brutalist) to adapt Colin Wilson's 1967 cult classic novel The Mind Parasites in collaboration with director Nathan Silver (Between the Temples). Townsend is represented by WME.