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Jennie S Redling

JENNIE S REDLING

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  represented by Mark Orsini

Jennie S. Redling's plays have been produced in New York City and nationally. In April, 2005 her short play, Broken Moon will be performed in the New York City's 11th Annual 15-Minute Play Festival at the Globe Theatre. In June 2004 her play Lavinia Speaks directed by Sue Lawless, was presented at the Juneteenth Legacy Theatre's Juneteenth Festival sponsored by the Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Ms. Redling's work has been produced at Theatres such as Buffalo's AlleyWay Theatre, the NYC Fringe Festival 2000 by the Mefisto Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, adobe Theatre company, Soho Rep, the Sage Theatre, the Mint Theater the West Bank Downstairs Theatre, with play readings by Urban Stages, the Barrow Group, the Abingdon Theatre Company and the Stamford Center for the Arts, among others. Ms. Redling is the national recipient of the the Stanley Drama Award, and the Arlene R. And William P. Lewis Playwriting Award for Women. She is a recipient of a New York State Foundation for the Arts grant and was playwright in residence at the Mint Theatre from 1991-1995. Her monologues are published in Smith & Krause's "Audition Arsenal for Women" due out late fall, 2005. Other awards and productions include: the Los Angeles City Playhouse Short Play Competition, the University of West Florida New Voices Competition and 1998 and 1999 Best of Festival awards in Main Street Arts Theatre's One Act Festival. She has been nominated by Ensemble Studio Theatre for the Arnold L. Weissberger Award, was a 2001 finalist for the Arts & Letters Prize for Drama as well as a finalist in the Actors Theatre of Louisville Ten-Minute Play Competition, the Midwest Theatre Competition and the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's Summer Conference for both 2000 and 2001. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. , BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop, and Actors Equity Association.

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

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         Broken Moon         Desperate Territory         Fair Wind For Yarrow, A         Gone Astray         House Of Angels, The         Lavinia Speaks         Miscast         My Heart is the Drum         Rape In Glorious, A         Ride the Dark Cars
Broken Moon

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BROKEN MOON is a fifteen minute play in which LILA, a diffident, middle aged woman seemingly finds herself in a waiting room, without knowing why. PAULINE, young, with a defensive arrogance, enters and waits impatiently. As the women reluctantly connect, the purpose of their visit is revealed: to have abortions performed. LILA soon discloses that the child she carries is not her husband's but belongs to a stranger. Her confession and the plea for forgiveness which follows breaks through PAULINE's armor. When PAULINE offers and consequently receives comfort, both women find the strength to trust their own minds and hearts.

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Globe Theatre     2005

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Desperate Territory

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Georgia Sanfilippo has been doing her best to destroy her marriage, seemingly guided by something beyond her control. Today a parcel has arrived at her door. Her brother Ben's belongings, after a year of forwarding to his past addresses, now sits at her feet. Benjamin had lived with Georgia and her husband, Michael, until two years ago when a bitter quarrel sent him traveling across the country on a trip that he and Georgia had fantasized about since their childhood. She hasn't heard from him since. the two were singularly close in those years but her marriage, combined with Ben's homosexuality imposed a separation which Ben was not inclined to accept. Georgia denies that her self-destructive brother might be dead despite Michael's pointing out the origin of the package - a hospice in Montana. But is it Ben's ghost Georgia now faces with each token or memento she draws from the box of his property? Or has her need to know if she is responsible for his death conjured him? Either way, Georgia wagers her marriage that she is innocent of his destruction. As her relationship with Michael falls apart, she orchestrates scenes from her past in a desperate search for clues. At last she arrives at a place she had tried to forget - alone at her mother's deathbed. there, she sees, was where her youthful courage first deserted her, where she lost the will to fight, where she became convinced she'd never win. By this time Michael is about to abandon her. To keep him, Georgia must fight her own fear of love and loving, and save the one person in her family she never rescued - herself.

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Fair Wind For Yarrow, A

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Set in the Rockland County of the fifties, A FAIR WIND FOR YARROW concerns Russell, a young man whose glamorous mother, Miriam, divorced his Vanya, father, and moved in with her own mother when Russell was three. When Miriam died shortly after, Russell was brought up by his grandmother Millie and her sweet but addled sister, Stella, with infrequent visits from Vanya. Now, at 15 and plunging into adolescence, Russell discovers a journal that Millie has hidden of his mother's writings. Miriam's romantic account of her youth strikes such a familiar chord with Russell that he conjures up his mother and gives her life. But the crush he develops on this vivacious imaginary young woman brings painful clashes with both Millie and Vanya, in whose hearts the ghost-like Miriam still resides, along with their unsettled grief and love.

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Gone Astray

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concerns a mother who for nine years, insists her abducted child is still alive. Since her daughter's disappearance, she has frozen herself, her husband and their retarded, son in a chAngeless state. Now, with the missing girl's twentieth birthday approaching, she is enraged at God and tempted by unknown spirits. When a Lakota Sioux young woman appears at her doorstep, a supposed psychic who is persuaded to recover the lost child, the woman's quest brings her to a place known only to Native Americans, half spirit/half real. there she must grapple with guilt, God and ghosts in order to break the spell of waiting which has engulfed her family and her soul.

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House Of Angels, The

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Lavinia Speaks

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Miscast

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Meg Riley won the part of Masha in an Off-Broadway production of Chekhov's "Three Sisters," but knows in her heart she should have been cast as Irina. Meg ardently identifies with Irina, believing that work is the only thing that matters. Meg's own work, the job that tides her over between acting jobs, is hardly to Irina's taste. She receives calls from phone sex customers whom she does her best to satisfy. At present they are annoying interruptions to her preparation of an argument that will prove to the play's director that he made a grave casting error. Everything changes when a caller whose voice sounds familiar to Meg describes her Brooklyn apartment from his window where he apparently has a perfect view. Meg thinks she recognizes the young man's voice - connecting it with something unspeakable that happened the year before which brought on a mental breakdown, causing her to drop out of college. the proximity of the caller can mean only one thing - whatever the ordeal - it isn't over.

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In the next hour Meg tries to summon help, but her attempts are either half-hearted or so angry they rebuff her would-be rescuers. When her last caller asks to hear about being hurt, Meg relates in detached but meticulous detail, her sexual assault. Soon there is no one left to summon and Meg has only herself for protection. But she is no longer the innocent Irina-like girl she was before her brutal rape, but the one afterward who expertly sabotages every chance she has of survival. At the final moment her real enemy or savior is herself.,    

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My Heart is the Drum

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An original story set in West Africa about a teenage girl who desperately wants a college education in order to become a teacher, and the challenges and dangers she faces as she pursues her dream

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lyrics by Stacey Luftig, libretto by Jennie Redling, music by Phillip Palmer

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Rape In Glorious, A

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In A Rape In Glorious, Joan Berk, a young Jewish art student is driven to remain in school when the Depression brings a cut in funding to her college, eliminating her scholarship. the school is named after Sir Thomas Mallory and the only remaining grant in his name carries with it full tuition. To win, she abandons her dream of becoming a sculptor and develops a proposal based on the subject of her art project - Joan of Arc. She then flatters the English professor who awards the prize, Niven Landau, a Mallory authority venerated in the community as well as the only Jew on the faculty. When he sexually assaults her she is confronted with the choice of reporting him to the authorities or enduring a private inquiry on campus conducted by the Board of Directors. the head of the Board sees Niven as likely to draw donations from the Jewish community and therefore valuable to the financial survival of the school. As the inquiry ensues, Joan herself seems on trial. Soon her very sanity appears at stake as she finds herself mistaking Joan of Arc's trial with the ordeal in which she is embroiled. the similarities cannot escape her - Joan was demonized by the English and idealized by the French. Joan is equally confused about her own morality and motives as she faces the choice of betraying a fellow Jew or her own personal honor.

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Ride the Dark Cars

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