Mary Stone Hanley

Mary Stone Hanley, Ph.D., is a playwright, poet, educator, scholar and researcher. As a playwright, she has written nine plays for young people and two screenplays produced as films. She wrote and produced "The Name Game" in the 2013 DC Black Theater Festival and a revised version in the 2014 Capital Fringe Festival facilitated by grants from the D.C. Arts and Humanities Commission. Her plays, "Street Life" and "Sunshine and Rain," have been chosen for readings by The African Continuum Theatre,...See more

Mary Stone Hanley, Ph.D., is a playwright, poet, educator, scholar and researcher. As a playwright, she has written nine plays for young people and two screenplays produced as films. She wrote and produced "The Name Game" in the 2013 DC Black Theater Festival and a revised version in the 2014 Capital Fringe Festival facilitated by grants from the D.C. Arts and Humanities Commission. Her plays, "Street Life" and "Sunshine and Rain," have been chosen for readings by The African Continuum Theatre, Black Theatre Festival, Inkwell Theater and Spooky Action Theater. She has also been a member of the Black Women Playwrights' Group. She began her theater life as an adolescent at Karamu House in Cleveland, Ohio, attended Syracuse University (majoring in Drama), and received a B.A in Children's Drama at the University of Washington. She has a M.Ed. in Educational Communications (emphasis in television and film) and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in Multicultural Education and Drama from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. In 2017, she graduated with an MFA in poetry writing from American University. Road Trip is her first book of poetry. See less