Selected Full-Length Plays by Jennifer
Charlotte’s Letters (6f/1m)
Selected for The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2026
2025 Production: Stella Adler Center for the Arts, NY, NY
1st Place Henley Rose Award
Rising Artists Playwriting Award
Writer2Writer Award
The Irish Rep’s New Works Reading Series Selection
Hudson Valley Theatre Festival Selection
NEWvember Festival Dublin Selection
O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist
ScreenCraft Semifinalist
Selected for The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022
and other honors
A fresh new take on the Brontës, Charlotte’s Letters intertwines novelist Charlotte Brontë’s two years as an unpublished woman at a Belgian school—where she became close to her married male tutor/employer—with her friend and biographer Mrs. Gaskell’s struggle to salvage Charlotte’s posthumous reputation and trailblazing novels. In Victorian England the novels of recently deceased author Charlotte Brontë’ are now widely banned for being too passionate. Mrs. Gaskell intends to prove that Charlotte was innocent and her reclusive life, blameless–but when an alarming letter arrives from Brussels, Gaskell is forced to investigate just how much of Charlotte’s novels–including the bestselling but scandalous Jane Eyre–was based on her own life. A vividly theatrical play about love, friendship, and the making of art and identity.
Juggling with Mr. Fields (1f/3m)
Twilight Theatre Productions Reading Selection
Southwest Theatre Productions New Play Contest Finalist
and other honors
In 1940s Hollywood wealthy, irreverent, aging, nearly-alcoholic movie star W.C. Fields–shunned by film studios and eager for work–grudgingly hires a young English manservant to get his life in order, while Fields’ live-in girlfriend Carlotta and rising-actor friend Anthony Quinn vie for his attentions. But new servant Rodney brings a secret link to the past, in this imagined look at the hidden side of an iconic film star and new play about longing and belonging.
still small voice (2f)
2024 Round the Bend Theater Reading Series Selection
2023 Moxie Incubator Finalist
Senior Janie lives alone in her New York City apartment. When Lizbeth, an old friend’s granddaughter, arrives for what’s supposed to be a short stay, it soon becomes apparent that Lizbeth has other, unexpected plans. A play about how we see, or don’t see, women.
Paranormal Love (2f/5m)
MTWorks Newborn Award
Panndora’s Box New Works Festival Honorable Mention
NEWvember New Plays Festival Finalist
and other honors
Kevin and David were a loving couple, but now Kevin is dead and stuck in a boring afterlife. When David decides to marry a woman, Kevin seizes the chance to wrap up unfinished business with the aid of two dead friends, until things begin to go wrong. A dark comedy about love, loss, and the power of memory.
Fertile Ground (3f/1m)
O’Neil National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist
Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/Fellowship at New Dramatists Semifinalist
Panndora’s Box New Works Festival Semifinalist
Novelist Leigh wants a baby but struggles with unexplained miscarriages. Her younger sister Olivia, a parent and psychologist on the tenure track, is having trouble finishing her new study of maternal filicide due to one of her subjects, whose motivations are disturbingly unclear. Leigh’s husband Max wants to be done with fertility treatments so that he and Leigh can move on. As Olivia and Max begin to lean on each other for support, Leigh begins writing a new novel about filicide, and fact and fiction begin to collide and will have devastating consequences. A new play about motherhood including its darker side.
Ellery (5f/1m)
Bechdel Group Reading Workshop Selection
Waterworks Festival Finalist
Selected for The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017
Becca hates her own psychic abilities. As if that isn’t enough, she’s suddenly being haunted by her dead (but still-critical) mom Linda and dead grandmother Ida, for reasons none of them understands. When a dead young woman appears and pleads confusingly for help, Becca tuns away, but unwittingly gives her best friend the chance to pursue a dangerous course that could harm Becca and another living woman. A play about living responsibly and being different.
Sugar (2f)
Published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2023 and Stage It! 7: Thirty Ten-Minute Plays
Selected for Little Fish Theatre’s “Pick of the Vine,” Lakeshore Players 10-Minute Play Festival and many other productions
Audience Choice Award, Authenticity Theater
Winner, Stage It! Ten-Minute Play Contest
Finalist, Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for Ten-Minute Plays
Finalist, City Theatre’s Susan J. Westfall National Award for Playwriting
Lilia is startled when her new neighbor Jaden knocks on her door and asks to borrow sugar. But Jaden has an urgent ulterior motive that has nothing to do with sugar, and everything to do with Lilia.
Chem Class (1f/1m)
Published in The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival 2022: The Short Plays
Official Selection of the The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, and other productions
On their morning walk to school, Alex asks his friend Sofia to their Junior Prom. But Sofia’s reaction isn’t what Alex had hoped for–or so he thought. A play about taking risks and being ourselves.
Fridge (1f/3 gender-neutral)
Published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021
Selected for Short+Sweet Perth and many other productions
Audience-Choice Award, KIT’s International Women in Comedy Festival
A woman and her fridge. A play about failure and acceptance.
Most Wonderful (1f/1m)
Published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021
Selected for OnStage Atlanta’s “Merry Little Holday Shorts” and other productions
Two unemployed roommates learn the meaning of Christmas with help from a can of beans and some dental floss.
Persephone (3f/1m)
Published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2019
Winner of Heartland Theater Company’s 10-Minute Play Contest and many other productions
A modern riff on the myth of Persephone, forced to leave her family forever. This Persephone returns to give her small child an unusual gift–a new mom.
First Day in Trade (3f/1m)
Published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2017
Selected for Rover Dramawerks’ 365 Women a Year Festival and others
At a major New York publishing house an impoverished assistant learns that one of the world’s wealthiest women–editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis–might want to bum cigarettes from her. (Inspired by a true incident)
The Great Gaffe (1f/2m)
Published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2016
Produced by theaters and colleges around the U.S.
Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist Edith Wharton gives a tea party for F. Scott Fitzgerald, struggling young author of The Great Gatsby, with disastrous results.
Expectations (1f/1m)
Selected for Short + Sweet Sydney, Valley Players and other productions
Novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Kate speak about the legal separation Dickens initiated after 22 years of marriage and nine children, narratives that differ substantially from each other. A play about power and women’s lives.