Avery is a playwright and actor. Her play The Age of Mary won the 2025 Terrence McNally New Play Incubator and the 2025 Neukom Playwriting Award, and received a Citation of Excellence from the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation. Her other plays include Pleasers, Immaculate Mothers, and The Winter Guard Play.
Her work has been developed at Second Stage, Lincoln Center, Clubbed Thumb, and South Coast Repertory, among others. She is the winner of Clubbed Thumb’s 2022 Biennial Commission, a proud member of EST/Youngblood, and an inaugural member of Lincoln Center’s Helen Gurley Brown Theater Lab. She has been in residence at Ucross and is a 2026 MacDowell fellow. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from UT Austin.