Ally Merkel is a Brooklyn-based playwright. She writes funny language-obsessed plays for fast talkers.

Ally has developed work with the Alliance Theatre, New York Stage and Film, the Under Construction Playwrights Group at The Road Theatre Company, and the COOP’s Clusterf**ck working group. She is an alumna of Theater Masters’ National MFA Playwrights Festival “Take Ten” (2024) and of the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals program (2022). Her short play Carrots, about a teenage boy who wants his best friend to bite off his finger, is published with Concord Theatricals. Ally’s work has also been seen onstage at The Tank, The Fled Collective, New Perspectives Theatre Company, and The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues. Ally has a BA in political science from Kenyon College and an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU. She is represented by Chris Till with Paradigm.