About

Welcome! I’m Charlene Alaro Adhiambo

Charlene Adhiambo is an MFA candidate in playwriting at Columbia University. She is a proud Kenyan-American dramatist raised in Atlanta and based in Harlem. She is a 2025 Hansberry-Lilly Fellow. She was a semi-finalist for The Hearth Theater’s 2023 Virtual Retreat, receiving support for her eco-horror SEED, and her one-act, time-travel play GUARDIAN was stage read at Saudade Theatre’s Re-Descobrimentos Festival in 2020. Her short story “Lost and Found” was published in Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (2024, Ghoulish Books). She previously worked as an artistic associate at Obie-award winning PlayCo. Adhiambo has bylines in Catapult and the Columbia Spectator. BA: Columbia University. Photos by Vielka Ebadan