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Penny Jackson

PENNY JACKSON

  
Nationality:    USA
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Penny Jackson's play, SAFE, won best new dramatic writing at The Planet Connections Theater Festivity. This play was later produced at 59E59 in the East To Edinburgh Festival and then at The Edinburgh Fringe at The Space UK Theater. Her play, I KNOW WHAT BOYS Want, was produced last March by Ego Actus at The Workshop Theater. Upcoming plays include SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, produced by Playwrights Round Table, and BEFORE for Manhattan Theater Works. Other plays include THE BELLE OF STATEN ISLAND, which was featured in the all female playwrights festival Double X in Seattle. Awards include a Pushcart Prize, Barnard College's One Act Play Award and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Recently, Penny was the only non-British playwright to be one of eight finalists for The Kenneth Branagh Prize for Drama. She is a member of The League of Professional Theater Women and The Dramatists Guild. Penny is also the author of the novel, Becoming The Butlers, and a new short story collection, All Alices, which will be published May, 2014.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Penny Jackson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Belle of Statten Island         Bitten         Booze In the Boroughs         Canine Encounter         Going Up         I Know What Boys Want         Last Call         Lay Me Down         Mind the Gap         Noon Encounter         Office Romance         Oh What A Night         Palpitations         Safe         Science!         See Something Say Something         Stolli Santa         Wally in Central Park         Year After, The

Belle of Statten Island

Synopsis:
A former fireman finds a drunken and confused young woman abandoned on the Staten Island ferry

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stone Soup Theater, Seattle, Washington    Apr 2011

Organisations:
part of The Double XX Festival

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Bitten

Synopsis:
After she nearly burns down her apartment a young doctor wants his grandmother - an alcoholic - to move into sheltered accommodation

Notes:
Full length version of "Last Call"

1st Produced:
Quinn's Bar, New York    Feb 2014

Organisations:
Ego Actus

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
Recording of stage play: http://www.youtube.com/user/thePRTFL

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Genre:
Short Play site specific 60 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Booze In the Boroughs

Synopsis:
A bottle of vodka, a Russian emigre and the five New York Boroughs

Notes:
part of Page to Stage

1st Produced:
Joria Productions, 260 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, NY    13 May 2011

Organisations:
F.a.C.T.

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Canine Encounter

Synopsis:
The Governor's wife meets the escort he has hired

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Going Up

Synopsis:
Some people can really push your buttons: A businessman and a drag queen get stuck in an elevator at the Marriott Hotel.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
The Teachers' Club, Dublin Gay Festival, Ireland    May 2015

Organisations:
91 Central Productions for The International Dublin Gay Theater Festival

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/going-up   -

Music:
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Genre:
Gay, one act 50 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I Know What Boys Want

Synopsis:
A High School sex scandal. A high school girl discovers that this week's Internet sensation is a video of her having sex and is determined to handle this crisis alone.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Ego Actus

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
one act 87 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Last Call

Synopsis:
A young doctor tries to persuade his grandmother to stop drinking in her favourite bar and go into sheltered accommodation

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Lay Me Down

Synopsis:
A marriage is tested when the parents realise there will be no change in their son's autism

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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Mind the Gap

Synopsis:
An American couple are bewildered by British customs when they attend the funeral of a relative in London

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Noon Encounter

Synopsis:
At the gynaecologist's surgery Martin discovers his ex-wife who he thought was infertile

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Office Romance

Synopsis:
The dangers of an office romance after a boozy Christmas party

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Oh What A Night

Synopsis:
Jimmy gets expelled from college. He arrives home to find his mother out and his younger sister about to loose her virginity

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Palpitations

Synopsis:
This play has a sitcom style comedy about a young lesbian couple who have recently split-up.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Untucked A festival of 5 short plays celebrating the LGBT Community

1st Produced:
Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington aVenue, New York, NY 10010    23 Oct 2011

Organisations:
Baruch Performing Arts Center and F.a.C.T.

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short play. - - Gay, one act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Safe

Synopsis:
the life of an Upper east Side teenager can be hell. Nina Foster's mom is in rehab for alcoholism, her Father goes on endless business trips, she hates high school and Liz, her anorexic best friend, wants to kidnap her baby niece. What else can she do but go to meet a dangerous man? Safe is about trying to find your way in a scary world. In keeping with the social conscious values of Planet Connections this production is in support of the National eating Disorders association.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
theatres at 45 Bleecker
45 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10016    01 Jun 2012

Organisations:
ego actus

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama 80 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Science!

Synopsis:
A High School junior tries to get his lab partner to concentrate on their project rather than becoming the next Lady Gaga

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1st Published:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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See Something Say Something

Synopsis:
An innocent man is made to look like a villain

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Santos Dantin Studio Theatre, Orlando    18 Oct 2013

Organisations:
John Goring Memorial One Act Series 4

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Stolli Santa

Synopsis:
The perils of an office romance at the Christmas party

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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Wally in Central Park

Synopsis:
Jenny and Sam, two estranged adult siblings, face the task of fulfilling their dead mother's wish to bury "Charlie" in Central Park. there, in the middle of a winter's night, they meet the mysterious Alexi, a former Russian scientist, who shares a bottle of vodka as well as wisdom. A comedy about recycling, loss and reconciliation.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of the New York City Icon Plays as "Charlie in Central Park" . An evening of six short plays by six different authors that feature New York City as a background. each play will feature an iconic New York City location or place, the subway, Central Park and the Staten Island Ferry among others.the New York City Icon plays

1st Produced:
Theatre 54 @ Shetler
244 West 54th Street (12th floor), New York, NY 10019    06 Nov 2011

Organisations:
ego Actus

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
short comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Year After, The

Synopsis:
Set a year after 9/11, these two plays show how strangers of different ages, religions and races discover healing and hope through random encounters on the New York City subway and The Staten Island Ferry.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
1 act 45 min

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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