Biography
Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he studied creative writing at Miami University and earned an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He served in the Peace Corps in Senegal before moving to New York to pursue playwriting.
Joseph is known for stage works including Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, 2010) and Guards at the Taj and Describe the Night (Obie Awards for Best New American Play). He has written for television, including episodes of Nurse Jackie, and contributed teleplays to the series Little America (2020) and Welcome to Chippendales (2022). His screenwriting credits include the films Draft Day (2014) and Army of One (2016), as well as episodes of Extrapolations (2023) and Dear Edward (2023).
