About Me

A.M. Palson’s plays revolve around the exploration of complex emotions and identity through heightened, often fantastical circumstances with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ experiences. Works have been seen at Bristol Valley Theatre, Theatre Nova, Flint Repertory Theatre, American Stage's 21st Century Voices, and elsewhere. Awards include The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Gary Garrison Award for Outstanding Ten Minute Play (National Winner 2021), City Theatre's National Award for Short Playwriting (Finalist, 2019 and 2020), and The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play (National Finalist, 2021). Works have been included in We/Ourselves: Twenty-Five 10-Minute Plays Celebrating Gender Diversity (2025), We/US: Monologues for the Gender Minority (2022), Best Women's Monologues of 2021, The Kilroys List (2020), and Best Men's Monologues of 2019. Palson was Artist-in-Resident at The Mitten Lab in 2019 and resident playwright at Queer Theatre Kalamazoo in the 2019-2020 season. Palson graduated with an MFA in playwriting from Western Michigan University in 2020 and is a dissertator in Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. As a scholar, Palson studies LGBTQ+ theater in the late 20th century, theater as an expression of historiographical and archival research, and how documentary theater allows LGBTQ+ practitioners and audiences to collectively experience their history and build activist communities.

Works have been produced and published under previous name Amber Palmer.