About the IAPP

Dorothy Fortenberry is a playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. Her plays include: "Partners" (Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival), "Species Native to California" (IAMA Theatre), "Good Egg" (Red Fern Theatre), "Caitlin and the Swann" (The Management), "Status Update" (Center REPertory), and "Mommune" (Chalk Rep).

As a television writer and producer, she has worked on "Extrapolations" (Apple TV+), "The 100" (the CW), and "The Handmaid's Tale" (Hulu) for which she received multiple Emmy nominations, the PGA Award, and two WGA Awards. She also writes essays for publications including Commonweal and The Los Angeles Review of Books and likes to talk on podcasts. She is the 2021 laureate of the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters for outstanding work in the category of fiction writer or dramatist.