COMFORT IFEOMA KATCHY
Biography
comfort ifeoma katchy is a playwright, actor, dramaturg and educator hailing proudly from Houston, Texas. She recently received her MFA in Playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, where she was a recipient of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting. Her writings include How I Learned to Play Tennis, The Alley, Stray Dogs,You Can Tell a Tree by Its Fruit, and Games Have Rules. comfort was most recently seen on stage in Is God Is at the Rec Room Arts in Houston and Pride of Doves at Yale Cabaret.
comfort has had work presented through the Alley Theatre’s Alley All New Festival, Theater Masters Take Ten Festival, and the University of Houston’s 2021 Mainstage season. She was the second place recipient of the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award at the Kennedy Center (2024), a semi-finalist for the Parity Development Award (2026), Premiere Stages at Kean University (2026), the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival (2026), the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (2025), the Hansberry-Lilly Award (2023), UCross + The Blank Theatre Future of Playwriting Prize (2022), and the Third Culture Theatre Nexus Festival (2022). comfort has been an inaugural member of the Rec Room Writers Group in Houston, Texas, since 2019. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Lone Star College CyFair in their Drama Division.
She holds a B.F.A. in playwriting and dramaturgy from the University of Houston’s School of Theatre and Dance, an Associate of Arts from Lone Star College Cy Fair and Certificate in acting from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City.