Chas LiBretto is a writer and performer based in New York City.
Chas LiBretto is a Brooklyn based playwright and novelist. He received his playwriting MFA at Columbia University, where he studied under Lynn Nottage, David Henry Hwang, and Charles Mee. He was mentored by Oskar Eustis while writing The Laodamiad, a play inspired by a lost, fragmentary work of Euripides. As a playwright, his work has been developed around the country, including at Roundabout Theatre, Signature Theatre, Ars Nova, Lincoln Center, The Tank, 59E59, Less Than Rent, Almanack Arts Colony, and the Getty Villa. He is a Harvard University/Center for Hellenic Studies Fellow, a Paideia Institute Brightheart Fellow, a Pulitzer nominee (Cyclops: A Rock Opera w/ Jason Landon Marcus) and has won grants from the Puffin Institute and the NYU Classics Everywhere Initiative. He also co-founded Psittacus Productions, a theater company specializing in the collision of ancient and modern stories, which was in residence at Lincoln Center Education from 2014 to 2020.
Recent work includes Poisonville (Less Than Rent/59E59), Song of Rage (Play Date at Pete's), Melville on the Shore (developed at the Almanack Arts Colony on Nantucket last summer), and The Royal Pyrate, a new musical developed and performed at Almanack Arts Colony on Nantucket and at the Waterfront Barge Museum Brooklyn in 2024. Next year he will have work seen at the Nantucket Whaling Museum and will finish the third book in a trilogy of novels about 12th century poets in residence at Le Porte Pointe in Noyers, France.