Betsy Dudak is a neurodivergent playwright who lives in a small town outside Chicago with her rescue dog, Barkley, who thinks he’s a cat. Betsy’s ten-minute plays include Christmas Disbelief, Goodbye, My Girls, Same, Sandman’s Agreement, Dancing on Her Own, and Gloria and Her Dragons, which were performed in cities across the US, including LA, Brentwood, Chicago, Austin, Memphis, New York, and Scottsdale, as well as one across the pond in the United Kingdom. When Everything Changed is Betsy’s 3-act triptych play that will be performed in Brooklyn, NY, on November 12, 2025
As E. A. Tobolski, Betsy penned her first nonfiction book, See Me Grieve: A Widow’s Journey, a series of essays based on the sudden, unexpected death of her husband, who was her person for 33 years. What the Heck, Dec?!, her first romance novel, was a Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence finalist. Wanna Bet, the second in the Reed Brothers series, was a 2020 Contemporary Romance Stiletto Contest finalist.
Betsy was chosen to be part of Chicago’s 2025-26 Playground Group, an incubator program for upcoming playwrights in the Chicago area, for a second year. For more information on Betsy and all her work, contact her at elizabethdudakauthor@gmail.com.
