CHARLENE ADHIAMBO (she/they) is a Kenyan-American playwright, musician, and director raised in Atlanta and based in Harlem. She examines desire and shame through the lenses of Black feminism, horror, and satire. She is a 2025 Hansberry-Lilly Fellow; a 2025 June Bingham New Playwright Commission Finalist; and a semi-finalist for The Hearth Theater’s 2023 Virtual Retreat, receiving support for their eco-horror play SEED. She was a 2022 artist-in-residence at Carroll Hall for her new musical (BI)CYCLES and had her one-act, time-travel play GUARDIAN stage read at Saudade Theatre’s Re-Descobrimentos Festival in 2020. Their short story “Lost and Found” was published in Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (2024, Ghoulish Books), which received Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award nominations. Adhiambo previously worked as an artistic associate at Obie-award winning PlayCo. She has bylines in Catapult and the Columbia Spectator. BA: Columbia University.