Jennifer’s full-length play Fertile Ground is a Semifinalist (top 15% of 1200+ submissions) for the 2022 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference. Jennifer’s award-winning play Charlotte’s Letters was a previous O’Neill Semifinalist.
Jennifer’s ten-minute play Chem Class has been selected (out of 800+ submissions) for the 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival. A staged reading will be performed at Southeast Missouri State University June 12, 2022, and the play will be published in the anthology Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022: The Short Plays.
Jennifer’s play Sugar has been selected by Lakeshore Players for its 18th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival at Lakeshore Players Theatre in White Bear Lake, MN, June 2-12, 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.
