Rev. Amina S. McIntyre is an Atlanta based award winning playwright whose productions and readings including: Actor’s Express, Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, Atlanta History Museum, Working Title Playwrights, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Out of Hand Theatre, The Blue Series (2019 Taurean Award Nominee for Excellence in Theatre), Vanderbilt University, Vanguard Repertory Theatre (Suzi Bass Award Winner). She has studied at Colby College, African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University, Playwriting from Spalding University, and Theological Studies from Emory University. She was a Playwriting Apprentice at Horizon Theatre Company, Managing Director of Karibu Performing Arts, 2014-2016 Atlanta Region Young Ambassador for the Dramatist’s Guild, Co-Producer of WeReckon: A Southern Chronicle and the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs 2014-2015 Emerging Theatre Artist. Most recently, she has created plays with Horizon Theatre’s Black Women Speak Emerging Cohort and a Tennessee Playwrights Studio 2022 Playwriting Fellow.

She is an Elder in Full Connection with the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church & has written plays such as Living Right & The Angels Academy Trilogy for drama ministry. McIntyre currently serves as Co-Founder of the Hush Harbor Lab, is an Emory University Center for Ethics Arts & Social Justice Fellow and is a Ph.D candidate in Religion at Vanderbilt University.