Arlene is a member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild. She has held residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the New Harmony Project and the Australian National Playwrights Conference and has taught playwriting and improv workshops at colleges around the country. She is the current Tennessee Williams Fellow at Sewanee University.

Her full-length works include LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC (NYC Drama League Best Play nomination, 2000), and AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, both of which were acclaimed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A four-time Heideman Award finalist and a three-time Samuel French Short Play Festival winner, her New York credits include 78th Street Theatre Lab, The Barrow Group, Circle-in-the-Square Downtown, Alice’s Fourth Floor, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE, and Vital Theatre. Her plays have been produced Off- and Off-Off-Broadway, extensively around the US, and in London, Barcelona, Beijing, Taipei and Amsterdam.

Hutton’s scripts are published by Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, Inc. They appear in the Smith & Kraus Best Women Playwrights Anthology Series. She lives in New York City and is currently working on a commissioned play about the Bronte family.

Born in Louisiana, Hutton has roots going back five generations in Kentucky. She received her MFA in acting from FSU/Asolo Conservatory two years after graduating from Rollins College. Her three play cycle, THE NIBROC TRILOGY (LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, SEE ROCK CITY, and GULF POINT VIEW), premiered in New York at the 78th Street Theatre Lab this past spring to rave reviews.