Jennifer’s play Chem Class, selected for The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022, will be produced by the Dobbins Conservatory at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO. Publication of the play is forthcoming in The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022: The Short Plays (Southeast Missouri State University Press).
Jennifer’s play Fertile Ground has been named a Semifinalist for the 2022 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/Fellowship at New Dramatists. It was also a Semifinalist for the 2022 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference and the 2022 Panndora’s Box New Works Festival.
Jennifer’s play We Were Happy will receive its premiere production as part of American Lives Theatre’s Short & Stout Festival in Indianapolis October 13-16, 2022.
A monologue from Jennifer’s award-winning full-length play Charlotte’s Letters has been selected for The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022 forthcoming from Smith and Kraus. Monologues from Jennifer’s plays Ellery and Quasars are published in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017 and The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2014, respectively.
Two new play publications: Jennifer’s Fridge is now published by Smith and Kraus in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021, edited by Debbie Lamedman; and Jennifer’s Most Wonderful is now published by Applause in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021, edited by Lawrence Harbison.
Jennifer’s play “Persephone” is one of six winners of Heartland Theatre Company‘s 2018 10-Minute Play Festival competition and will premiere at Heartland Theatre in June 2019.
Jennifer’s full-length play Charlotte‘s Letters has won 1st Place in the Henley Rose Playwrights Competition for Women. A staged reading will be performed in Knoxville, TN on May 13th, 2018, followed by a Q&A with Jennifer.
Jennifer’s new collection of poetry, Exclusions & Limitations, is now out from Plume Editions in conjunction with MadHat Press. Poems within have won awards and been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and appeared originally in Poetry, The New Republic, Southwest Review, Plume, Poetry Daily and many other prominent places. Read Grace Cavalieri’s review in Washington Independent Review of Books.
Jennifer’s short play “Admiral Grace Hopper Revisits” (about former U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and computer pioneer Grace Hopper) will premiere in March 2018 at Rover Dramawerks in Plano, TX as part of the theater’s 365 Women a Year new play festival.
