Hannah Doran

Hannah Doran is a playwright, whose work The Meat Kings! (Inc) of Brooklyn Heights was the joint winner with Ro Reddick of the 2026 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. They were also a nominee for 'Most Promising Playwright' in the 2026 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards. In 2024 the work won the Papatango New Writing Prize. A 2025 review of the work by The Guardian described it as "a vigorous first play, beautifully performed, alive and energetic, by a playwright of promise". Time Out reviewed it as "a solid play that grows in stature".

Doran attended Alton College, followed by an undergraduate degree at the University of Warwick and an MFA from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.