jatyler2@uh.edu 

James Anthony Tyler is the recipient of the 3rd Annual Horton Foote Playwriting Award and an inaugural playwright to receive a commission from Audible. He is currently a 2024/2025 Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room Fellow and was also recently The Playwrights Center’s McKnight Fellow and a Playwright participant in the 2024 Durango PlayFest. His plays include Into the Side of a Hill (Flint Repertory Theatre), Artney Jackson (World Premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival, 2018 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award), Some Old Black Man (Berkshire Playwrights Lab at St. James Place and 59E59 Theaters), and Dolphins and Sharks (LAByrinth Theater Company and Finborough Theatre in London). He has a MFA in Film from Howard University and a MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University. He is also a graduate of The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. For television, he was the Staff Writer for the OWN Network show Cherish the Day and was most recently in the writers’ room for The Savant, a new Apple + Drama Series starring Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain, debuting September 26, 2025.