Jennifer Maisel's plays have been workshopped and produced in Chicago, New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as well as regionally. She and Wendy McClellan won the 2006 Women Working With Women Collaboration Award from the New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts and Media for BIRDS, slated for production at Rorschach Theatre in Washington, D.C. in 2007. Her GOODY FUCKING TWO SHOES was produced in the 2005 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Jennifer received both the Charlotte Woolard award for extraordinary new voice in American Theatre and the Fund for New American Plays award from the Kennedy Center for THE LAST SEDER, which was produced at Chicago's Organic Theater and Theatre J in Washington, DC, and published by University of Texas Press. The screenplay adaptation of THE LAST SEDER won Showtime's Tony Cox screenwriting award at the Nantucket Film Festival. Jennifer's work has won the California Playwrights competition from South Coast Repertory, the Center Theatre International Playwrights Competition, the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Fund for New American Plays and finalist status for the PEN West Literary Award. Her full length plays include MAD LOVE, DARK HOURS, EDEN, BIRDS, and ...AND THE TWO ROMEOS. …AND THE TWO ROMEOS was read in Rattlestick Theatre's 2004 Exposure Festival and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey's New Play Festival and is slated for production at the Victory Theatre in Los Angeles in 2007. Her one act plays include ANIMAL DREAMS, IMPENETRABLE, STORYTELLER, SEEN AND NOT SEEN and HOW I LEARNED TO SPELL. She is a member of the playwriting collectives DogEar (dogear.org), Circle Rising and Playwrights Ink as well as the Dramatists Guild and the WGA. Jennifer attended Cornell University and received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She also writes for film and television.
