Bess Wohl is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress whose plays include Grand Horizons, Small Mouth Sounds, Liberation, and the book for the musical Pretty Filthy with composer/lyricist Michael Friedman and The Civilians.

Bess Wohl. Actress: Flightplan. Bess Wohl's plays include Small Mouth Sounds (featured in top ten lists in The New York Times, The Guardian, New York Post, and others, currently on a national tour), American Hero, Barcelona (multiple Ovation Award nominations), Touched, In, Cats Talk Back and Pretty Filthy, in collaboration with Michael ...

Bess Wohl is a playwright and filmmaker. Her plays have been produced on and off Broadway, regionally, and internationally and her feature film debut, BABY RUBY, starring Noémie Merlant and Kit Harington, premiered at the 2022 Toronto Film …

A nationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter, Bess Wohl has been nominated for Tony, Drama League, Lucille Lortel, and Drama Desk Awards, to name a few, and her plays have reached top ten lists in The New York Times, The New York Post, and The Guardian.

Jan 30, 2020 · Wohl, a graduate of the Yale School of drama, had been an actress and Silverman directed her in Lisa Kron’s play In the Wake. “I was so blown away by Bess’ talent and creativity,” says...

Mar 14, 2025 · From Tony Award® nominees Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) and Whitney White (Jaja's African Hair Braiding) comes a provocative, revealing, and irreverent jolt of a play about what really goes on...

As an actress, Bess has appeared onstage in New York, regionally and at Williamstown Theater Festival (five summers) and in numerous films and TV shows, where she has given birth, solved crimes, committed crimes, been wrongly accused, and come back from the dead.

Bess Wohl was an actress best known for her portrayal of characters throughout various television series. Wohl began her acting career with roles in the series "Law & Order" (1990-2010), "Cold Case" (CBS, 2003-2010) and "CSI: New York" (CBS, 2004-2013).

Bess Wohl, Actress: Flightplan. Bess Wohl's plays include Small Mouth Sounds (featured in top ten lists in The New York Times, The Guardian, New York Post, and others, currently on a national tour), American Hero, Barcelona (multiple Ovation Award nominations), Touched, In, Cats Talk Back and Pretty Filthy, in collaboration with Michael ...

An English concentrator, Wohl joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club and acted in several plays—appearing onstage as a television reporter, a sappy lover, one half of a married couple from Utah—and enrolled in Marjorie Garber’s two-semester course on Shakespeare.