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TyLie Shider
Playwriting, Film and TV Writing
Email: tshider@pace.edu

TyLie Shider is an American writer, a 2024 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellow, and the inaugural playwright in residence at ArtYard. A 2022Â鶹´«Ã½“2023 McKnight Fellow in Playwriting at the PlaywrightsÂ鶹´«Ã½™ Center, he is a recipient of Premiere StagesÂ鶹´«Ã½™ Liberty Live commission, two consecutive Jerome Fellowships, and an I Am Soul playwright in residence at the National Black Theatre. Recent projects include Certain Aspects of Conflict in the Negro Family, The Gospel Woman, Whittier and his filmmaking debut Sign OÂ鶹´«Ã½™ the Times. Screenwriting credits include: Truant. He holds a BA in Journalism from Delaware State University and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. A proud member of the Dramatist Guild, he is currently a Professor of Playwriting at Augsburg and Â鶹´«Ã½, and a staff writer for Minnesota Playlist where he writes a regular column on Creative Discipline.