Surrey Houlker (she/they) is a New Haven-based theater maker originally from a "right to farm" community and an old mill town in Massachusetts. Surrey writes about expansive Queerness in rural America, with one foot planted in reality and the other planted in the mouth of some unrelenting, gurgling creature. She is also an avid crier and a devoted cat parent.

Surrey's select plays include: REST, STOP (workshop: Yale University), FOR THE FISH (residency/reading: the cell theatre, Great Plains Theatre Commons - workshopped production: Moonbox - finalist: Trustus Playwrights Festival, Seattle Public Theater Distillery Festival, Live Arts WATERWORKS Festival), and THE DEAD DADZ CLUB (reading: TC2 Theatre Company). They received the 2025 Tennessee Williams Scholarship at Sewanee Writers' Conference and the 2024 Chesley/Bumbalo Grant for writers of Gay and Lesbian Theatre at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Surrey is currently pursuing an MFA in playwriting at Yale University’s David Geffen School of Drama (2027).

Surrey believes wholeheartedly in the intersection of arts education, trauma-informed teaching, and advocacy. In her formal educational work, she has worked with American Repertory Theatre, ArtsEmerson, The Gamm Theatre, and as a teacher with Boston, MA  public schools, Tiverton, RI Public Schools, and Moses Brown School. She is passionate about giving young people, especially young Queer people, space and liberatory tools to start conversations about their personal and collective histories regardless of societal factors that may tell them otherwise.