Speaker Profile
Vinson Cunningham
Staff writer, The New Yorker
Vinson Cunningham joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2016 and has served as a theater critic there since 2019. In 2020, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his profile of comedian Tracy Morgan. His writing on books, art and culture has appeared in the Times Magazine, the Times Book Review, Vulture, the Awl, The Fader, and McSweeney’s, where he wrote a column called “Field Notes from Gentrified Places.” Cunningham previously served as a staff assistant at the Obama White House.
