Hannah Ii-Epstein

Hannah Ii-Epstein (she/her) is a Native Hawaiian creative writer and award-winning dramatist from the North Shore of Oʻahu. Her work centers Native Hawaiian and local Hawaiʻi identities and LGBTQIA+ experiences, blending cultural tradition with contemporary storytelling across theatre and film.

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She earned her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University and is a founding member and Artistic Director of Nothing Without a Company, a Chicago-based theatre and film company dedicated to immersive, site-specific new work.

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Hannah is a founding member of BearCat Productions, a 50th season writer at Kumu Kahua Theatre, and a member of Tree Moss Hawaiʻi. She was part of the inaugural Native Hawaiian Storytelling Writers Immersive Program.

 

Her short film Queer Up the Details is currently on the film festival circuit, and her trilogy All Buss Up in a HI State: A Trilogy of Hawaiʻi Plays will be presented at Kumu Kahua Theatre from January 21–February 21, 2027.