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Jenny Schwartz

JENNY SCHWARTZ

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  represented by Mark Subias

Jenny Schwartz (Playwright) plays include God's Ear, Somewhere Fun and Cause for Alarm. Somewhere Fun premiered last season at the Vineyard Theatre. God's Ear was produced in New York by New Georges and the Vineyard Theatre. God's Ear has been produced nationally and internationally from Lisbon, Portugal to Boise, Idaho to Sydney, Australia. With Todd Almond, Jenny was the 2012 recipient of the Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theatre for the development of their musical play Iowa. Iowa has been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Sundance / MASS MoCA, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Dramatists, and The Flea Theatre. Iowa will premiere at Playwrights Horizons in 2015. Other awards and honors include the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Benjamin H. Danks Award in Drama, a Kesselring honor, two grants from Lincoln Center's Lecomte Du Nuoy Foundation, and Soho Rep's Dorothy Streslin Playwriting Fellowship. God's Ear and Somewhere Fun were both finalists for the Susan Smith Blackburn award. Jenny co-chairs the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She received an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University, is a graduate of Juilliard's playwriting program, and is a member of New Dramatists.

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

         Cause For Alarm         Escaping the Modern World         God's Ear         Iowa         Somewhere Fun

Cause For Alarm

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Escaping the Modern World

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inspired by interviews with people and communities who have chosen to live outside or beyond contemporary society such as cloistered nuns, Amish, Hassidic Jews, members of the 12 Tribes cult, vegans, home-schoolers, Civil War re-enactors, Mars pioneers, and earthshippers.

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God's Ear

God's Ear
Mel and Ted have lost their young son. Now, wherever Ted goes, he meets people with dead sons. And whatever Mel touches falls apart. Mel and Ted try to continue their way through the world, guided by their young daughter Lanie, and the Tooth Fairy and G.I. Joe.
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East 13th Street Theatre, 136 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003     02 May 2007

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90 min Play/Drama

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Iowa

Iowa
Mom found her soul-mate on Facebook, and he lives in Iowa. So Becca says goodbye to her beloved math teacher, bulimic best friend, neighborhood pony and her mildly deficient teenage life, and she follows her wayward mother to a new, uncharted beginning. But in this fanciful, absurdist and intoxicating musical play from the imagination of Jenny Schwartz and Todd Almond nothing can prepare them for what they'll find.

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written by Jenny Schwartz; music and lyrics by Todd Almond; oratorio lyrics by jenny Schwartz

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Somewhere Fun

Somewhere Fun
In Jenny Schwartz's linguistic feast of a play, Rosemary and Evelyn met a hundred thousand years ago in Central Park when their children were barely born. Somewhere Fun reunites the two women thirty-five years later on Madison Avenue, one windy fall day. With their children now grown and the world changing rapidly before (what's left of) their eyes, each finds herself face to face with the terrors, joys, and surprises of life and time. This is a wildly original story about connection  to our families, our memories, our moment in time.

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2012-2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist - Jenny Schwartz, playwright

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Vineyard Theatre, New York     15 May 2013

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dramatic comedy 120 min

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Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  1 boy 1 girl

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