Hannah Bos

Hannah Bos is an award-winning actor, writer and founder/co-Artistic Director of Obie-winning theater company The Debate Society. She is a creator of the series, Somebody, Somewhere. She has written for HBO’s “High Maintenance” and Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” and has developed pilots for HBO, FOX, Amazon and Paramount. She recently received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination (along with co-writer Paul Thureen) for Best First Screenplay for their feature Driveways (dir. Andrew Ahn) which premiered at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival (North American Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival) and will be released in spring 2020. The Debate Society’s most recent production The Light Years recently had its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons. In addition to co-writing all of the The Debate Society’s plays, she has starred in Jacuzzi (Ars Nova), Blood Play (Bushwick Starr/The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival/Williamstown Theatre Festival), Buddy Cop 2 (Ontological-Hysteric Incubator/Atlantic Stage 2), You’re Welcome (The Brick), Cape Disappointment (PS122), The Eaten Heart, The Snow Hen and A Thought About Raya. She also starred in the premiere of Will Eno’s The Open House at the Signature Theatre Company (Drama Desk Award and Lortel Nomination). Regional acting credits include: the premieres of Will Eno’s GNIT and Lisa Kron’s The Veri**on Play at Humana Festival, Andrei Serban’s Lysistrata and Three Farces and a Funeral and Janos Szasz’ Marat/Sade (all A.R.T). Hannah guest starred in “High Maintenance”/SUFJAN and appeared in the films “The Outside Story”(Upcoming), “The Incredible Jessica James", “Photo Op”, “How to Follow Strangers” and “Next Life”. Hannah is a Sundance Theatre Institute fellow, a former Ars Nova Artist-in-Residence and a recipient of The Six Points Fellowship. She is faculty at The National Theater Institute and has a B.A. from Vassar College and M.F.A from The Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University/Moscow Art Theater. Her work has been published by Samuel French, Playscripts and Play a Journal of Plays.