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Jennifer Maisel

JENNIFER MAISEL

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Susan Schulman Literary Agency  

Jennifer Maisel's plays have been hailed as "inventive and sophisticated" and "human and eternal" with a "formidable flair for the mysterious". She and Wendy McClellan won the 2006 Women Working With Women Collaboration award from the NY Coalition of Women in the Arts and Media for BIRDS, which was workshopped with First Look Theatre company in February and will be produced by Rorschach Theatre in Washington, D.C. in July. Her GOODY FUCKING TWO SHOeS, a Heideman award finalist, was produced in the 29th 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 by Chicago's Organic Theater and Theatre J in Washington, DC, and published by University of Texas Press. Jennifer's work includes MaD LOVe, MaLLBaBY DaRK HOURS, eDeN, BIRDS, and . . .aND the TWO ROMeOS. Her work has been developed and produced through Theatre of NOTe, the Wilton Project, the Magic Theatre, Playwrights Theatre of N.J., Rattlestick Theatre's exposure Festival, A.S.K. Spring Writers Retreat, Playlabs, and has won South Coast Repertory's California Playwrights competition, 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 and the abingdon Theatre's Christopher Brian Wolk award. Her one act plays include SOaR, FISSSHHHH, aNIMaL DReaMS, IMPeNeTRaBLe, STORYTeLLeR, SeeN aND NOT SeeN and HOW I LeaRNeD TO SPeLL. She is a member of Dogear (dogear.org), Playwrights Ink, 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.

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

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         And the Two Romeos         Animal Dreams         Birds         Dark Hours         Eden         Fissshhhh         Goody F***Ing Two Shoes         How I Learned To Spell         Impenetrable         Last Seder, The         Mad Love         Mallbaby         Mating Season         Objects Seen In A Mirror Are Closer Than they Appear         Open Season         Return to the Upright Position         Soar         Storyteller         there Or Here         Waiter, The         Wariswar         Welcome To Nuclear Beach         Wooden Horses

And the Two Romeos

Synopsis:
a memory play where Stacy - a woman now in her thirties - looks back and relives the tragedy that altered the trajectory of her life; the two fifteen year old boys who were in love with her at thirteen killed themselves, leaving her to suffer the consequences and the media's distortions of the event.

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Upcoming - the Victory theatre, Los Angeles, Ca

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Animal Dreams

Synopsis:
a woman on the brink of death looks at her life

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Birds

Synopsis:
Jorie - a woman caught between the world of her past and the one she has made for herself - lives a modern Grimm adaptation in New York City today. entranced and charmed by Gus, a homeless man who uses his own magic to seduce her, Jorie is taken on a dark ride into the city's underbelly that is triggered when she gives Gus her lover, James's, coat. a balance of the deux ex machina qualities of fairytale magic with the hardbased realities of the lives of the homeless man, the prostitute, the stockbroker in a post 9/11 world.

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1st Produced:
Rorschach Theatre In Washington, Dc    2007

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Rorschach Theatre in Washington, DC

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Dark Hours

Synopsis:
the story of Rip, an artist blinded at the height of his career, and Jane, the woman who comes to take care of him and ultimately makes him the center of her life.

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The Antrobus Group, New York City    -

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Eden

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a bride's cold feet, a mother seeking her daughter's saviour and a downtown New York City nightclub that disappears. Three women face the battles of our time - AIDS, alienation, committment, loyalty and rootlessness - armed only with the power of love and friendship. eDeN is the story of Maura's search for the man she is certain saved her from death in the Holocaust in hope he can save her daughter, Cecelia, who is HIV-positive. It is the story of Cecelia, who escapes to a club called eden, waiting to die until she can somehow learn to live. It is the story of Cecelia's two closest friends who, on the verge of love, can't love without her. their stories are woven together by Harvey - executor of divine coincidence - who must somehow bring these women and their loves together in the few hours before the wedding takes place.

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AIDS full length

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Fissshhhh

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a mother and daughter no longer communicate

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Goody F***Ing Two Shoes

Synopsis:
the Drama club. the new girl. the lead in the school play. High school politics get dirty.

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Heideman Award Finalist

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10 Min

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How I Learned To Spell

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a girl uses her mother as a role model. the mother is a 'phone sex operator

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Impenetrable

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aJ only wants to have 'phone sex. Jamie is going to be deconstructed. Ursula has seen a young Hitler singing karaoke

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Last Seder, The

Synopsis:
When Lily and Marvin Price's daughters return for the last Passover in their family home, they find that the magic of the Seder ritual is the one thing that will allow them to heal the past and move on with their lives. the LaST SeDeR is a play about the members of this family getting a second chance to say goodbye to a love who is already gone - patriarch Marvin Price who suffers from alzheimers - enabling them to open new doors to their futures.

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Winnder of the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays Award And the Charlotte Woolard Award for New Voice in American theatre. Also commissioned by National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

1st Produced:
Theatre J, Washington, Dc    2003

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Theatre J

1st Published:
9 Contemporary Jewish Plays, University of Texas Press, 2005   -

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Mad Love

Synopsis:
Thirteen year old Jace's family fell apart when her brother died last year, and now she desperately tries to escape her Father by persuading a reclusive thirty-one year old Christmas tree salesman to help her kidnap her hissing mother from the insane asylum.

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Roger L Stevens Award from the Fund for New American Plays; Pen WeST Literary Award finalist

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The Antrobus Group, New York City    -

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Mallbaby

Synopsis:
Between fertility appointments reporter Maggie Harris covers the U.S. Mall beat. Today's big story involves a modern-day baby Moses - a newborn found in the mall's movie theatre - sparking a search for his mother. the abandoned baby sets a whirlwind of confusion through U.S. Mall, as each person it touches is beset by emotions of longing and love in the frenzy of trying to find who this boy belongs to. Visions of a feral wildchild roaming the mall's dark underbelly and foraging from the Food Court plague Maggie and Solya, the teenage mother. What will become of a newborn baby left among the popcorn and ticket stubs, as the natural, unnatural and mystical worlds of the towering shopping monstrosity combine?

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Dark yet funny Drama Play/Drama

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Mating Season

Synopsis:
the legacy of an unfaithful husband and father

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Objects Seen In A Mirror Are Closer Than they Appear

Synopsis:
a Nevada stripper chases across country to get her child back from her ex

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Open Season

Synopsis:
a feral child may be the long lost son of a couple

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Return to the Upright Position

Synopsis:
online text collaboration in response to 9/11

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Written by Greg Romero, Cusi Cram; Mitchell Gossett; Julie Hebet; Llysa Holland; Julie Jensen; Jennifer Maisel; Julia Pearlstein; Brad Rothbart; Caridad Svich; Ann E Taylor; Elizabeth Wong; Michael Wright; Allison Eve Zell

1st Produced:
Perishable Theatre Textplosion Series, Providence, Ri    2002

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Soar

Synopsis:
an adolescent's rebelliousness turns to tragedy. Now a mother cannot sleep. Can the late night arguments with the daughter who deceived her finally give her the strength to cut the ties to her debilitating grief?

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The Road Theatre Company, Los Angeles, Ca    -

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10 Min

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Storyteller

Synopsis:
a couple are breaking up and can only communicate through their dance teacher

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there Or Here

Synopsis:
a hotel room in a third world country. the middle of the night. a jetlagged American couple, Robyn and ajay (she of eastern european Jewish descent, he was born here but he's fully Americanized and has no memory of this country), are wide awake. Tomorrow they will meet the woman who will have her frozen egg and his sperm implanted inside her to have their baby. Tonight they won't have sex even though they want to. the play moves between the past and the present, and between America and this third world country, connected by the tenuous threads of time zones and technology. Robyn and ajay find themselves confiding in the anonymous beings on the other end of their phone lines rather than in each other; computer technicians, fast food order takers and phone sex operators whose work has been outsourced to another country become the refuge they can't be for each other right now.

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Philadelphia. Sundance finalist, 2007

1st Produced:
14th Street Theatre, 344 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003    2008

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Hypothetical Theatre Company

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Genre:
Comedy

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Waiter, The

Synopsis:
When she goes to have lunch with her mother, the daughter does not realise she has been set up with a blind date

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Wariswar

Synopsis:
an online text-performance collaboration in response to the Iraq War

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conceived and edited by Caridad Svich; text by Alexander Barreto, Chris Danowski, Lyssa Holland, Jennifer Maisel, Glen Skip-Newell, Greg Romero, Caridad Svich, Ann Taylor, Timothy Verret and Michael Wright.

1st Produced:
Theaters Against War, NY Www.Thawaction.Org    Aug 2005

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Welcome To Nuclear Beach

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a stockbroker, a hairdresser and a retarded twin

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Wooden Horses

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a fairground has been condemned. Two men revisit the place that ruined their friendship

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