Warren Riley is an actor, journalist, playwright, and Angeleno. Riley's plays concern the meaning of manhood and how transness can exist within it.

During his time in the English Department at UCLA, Riley won the 2025 LA Press Club award for Best Arts and Entertainment Story by a student and participated in the 2025-26 class of the Unusual Suspects Theatre Journalism Fellowship.

Riley's first play, Urgent Care, opened at the LA-based transgender theater festival, The Joy Who Lived. After a subsequent run at Hollywood Fringe in the summer of 2026, Riley was a semifinalist for the Loud Karma Women and Gender Non-Conforming Playwrights Award.

Most recently, Riley was awarded the $10,000 Eastside Arts Initiative Individual Artists Grant to mount a production of Urgent Care in Los Angeles County, an incredible opportunity to uplift transness within his local community. Currently, Riley is managing the pre-production process/pursuing an engagement with the Kirk Douglas Theater as he begins his first year at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa.