PHILLIP GREGORY BURKE

he/him/li

actor/playwright/producer

Phillip Gregory Burke is an award winning actor, playwright and producer. He is a current Bandung & Art House INKubator Resident, and 2025 Fresh Ground Pepper Fellowship recipient. With his group DIEZ, he won the 2024-2025 National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Fund For the Arts Grant. His play, A Mercy at Midnight Castle, won the 49th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, placing number 1 out of 850 worldwide submissions, and is published by Concord Theatricals. Other plays: He’s The First, the inaugural winner of the Improbable Fiction New Works Series at Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, top 13 finalist, out of 850 submissions, for The 48th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, 2023 Semi-finalist for The Obsidian Theater Festival and available on All Arts/PBS. The Suncatchers of Sahel: An Ancestral Tale Told to Today’s Griot, Part I: The Crumble Under the Crescent (2022 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow Finalist and 2022 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting Fellowship Semi-finalist), The Simaraboo Two, The Suncatchers of Sahel: An Ancestral Tale Told To Today’s Griot, Part II: The Two Twilights (2023 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting Fellowship & The Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semifinalists), The First Commander In Chief, Decimals of the Delta, Paradise Estate, and A Holy Her (Semi-finalist for the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship Award). Recent commercials as an actor: CarShield & Red Lobster. Education: MA Classical and Contemporary Text: Acting-The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. BFA Drama & BS Sociology from Syracuse University. His entire body of work and life is dedicated to the memory of the legendary Miss Dame Sally. Ann Jones.