Camille Simone Thomas is a playwright, screenwriter, producer, educator, and performer. She’s also a 5th generation Detroiter through her father’s side and a first generation Jamaican through her mothers. It’s important for her to name this because her work most often interrogates cultural legacies, familial healing, spirituality and the general kicking and screaming of how Black femmes get free despite the oppressive forces of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy.

Her plays have been workshopped and performed at The Connelly Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Sanguine Theatre Company, Blackboard Playwriting series, Lime Arts Theatre company, American Slavery Project, The Obie Award-winning Harlem9 and Detroit Public Theatre Company, Dixon Place, Workshop Theatre, Barter Theatre Company, The National Women's Theatre Festival, The Brick, and more! 

She was a 2024 finalist for the Eugene O’neill NPC for her play “At God’s Back, 2024 NYSAF Founders Award Finalist, A 2024 Artistic Research Fellow at The Folger,  A 2023 Broadway Advocacy Coalition fellow, A 2023 New Harmony Project finalist, 2023 Hedgebrook Writers retreat finalist, 2023 Catskills Creative Residency finalist, a 2023 Van Lier New Voices Fellowship Semi-finalist and a 2022 Art House Inkubator Finalist. In addition to fellowships with The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s as a DEAR fellows,Theatre Producers of Color, and Reel Sisters film festival.

Most recently her play “Mud or when things get messy and how we live with it” had it’s Off-Broadway premiere at the Connelly Theatre in August 2024 with SheNYC theatre festival and won “Best Production of a Play” “Best Leading Actor in a Play” and “Best Direction of a Play”.

Currently Camille is a writer in the Under Construction Playwrights Group working on “111 Orchestra Place” a play in her six play “Cotton & Cane” play cycle.  In November 2024 she will be doing an artist retreat with the North American Culture Laboratory.