Collin Van Son is a Denver-based playwright, poet, and essayist. His full-length plays include Natural History, featured at the 2026 Colorado New Play Festival, a 2025 Princess Grace Award semifinalist, and featured at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2023 National Playwrights Conference; Two-Man Rule, a 2026 Blue Ink Award finalist, featured at New Art City Theatre's Festival '25, and a 2021 Eugene O'Neill finalist; and TARVA, which he directed at Penn State University in 2018. His one-act play Disavow was featured at the 2024 Southeast Texas Festival of New Plays, and his one-act children's show Moreland & Halifax: Well-Read Detectives has received student productions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. His debut chapbook of poetry, How to Draw a Blank, was published by Cathexis Northwest Press in 2020. His essays have appeared in The Colorado Sun, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and elsewhere.

Coming up: On July 22, I will be speaking at Denver's Holiday Theater as part of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver's Mixed Taste series. My play Natural History will be having its world premiere run at Mosaic Theater Company in Washington, D.C., from January 21 to February 7, 2027.