Arwen Mitchell is a playwright, dramaturg, and teacher based in Cleveland, Ohio. Recent productions include The Bicentennial Play, a regular-season commission from Kent State University, and Snake Oil by Cleveland’s fringe theatre Ohio City Theatre Project. She was the recipient of Cleveland Public Theatre’s 2nd Nord Playwriting Fellowship, and was a PlayLabs playwright in 2015’s Great Plains Theatre Conference. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and is their northern Ohio region’s youth ambassador.