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Jenny Rachel Weiner

JENNY RACHEL WEINER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    United Talent Agency  represented by Rachel Viola

Jenny Rachel Weiner is a playwright and actress based in New York City, and is currently the Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at the Roundabout Theatre. Select plays include: diventare (The Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award), Horse Girls (Fordham/Primary Stages, the cell, Ars Nova; New York, Collaboraction; Chicago, Annex Theatre; Seattle, published by Samuel French), Nina (Roundabout Theatre Company Underground ?Reading, ONeill Semi-Finalist 2015, Fordham/Primary Stages), Jason&Julia (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Stagedream (co-written with Lee Overtree?), Aunt Sylvia Is Dead (The Collective; published in The Collective Anthology 2014), Kingdom Come (Roundabout Underground Reading Series 2015, Roundabout Underground Production Fall 2016 directed by Kip Fagan). Jenny has developed plays with/been commissioned by the ONeill Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Northlight Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, and Roundabout Theatre. BFA: Boston University, MFA: Fordham University/Primary Stages. When Jenny isnt writing plays, you can catch her directing and performing with NYC/LA based theatre company Story Pirates.

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

         Aunt Sylvia Is Dead         diventare         Horse Girls         Jason&Julia         Kingdom Come         Nina         Pie Town         Stagedream         Summer On The High Seas

Aunt Sylvia Is Dead

Synopsis:
A fast-paced and darkly funny look at what happens when a loud and large Jewish family loses their matriarch.

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1st Produced:
The Collective     Oct 2014

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1st Published:
published in The Collective Anthology 2014   -

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Genre:
ten min play

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Male:  1            Female:  6            Other:  -

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diventare

Synopsis:
When Lindas life fractures after a devastating loss, she escapes to an imaginary underwater kingdom. As a hurricane once again approaches, Linda must choose to retreat further or face the storm.

Notes:
The Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award

1st Produced:
Boston University New Play Initiative     2009

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Genre:
Play/Drama 120 min

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Horse Girls

Horse Girls
Twelve-year-old Ashleigh rules the Lady Jean Ladies, South Florida's most exclusive horse club. Rumors that her family's stables are being sold and their horses killed for meat throws the Ladies into crisis in this dark comedy of middle school deception and lies.

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Horse Girls was developed at Fordham/Primary Stages and was workshopped in Ars Nova's ANTFest 2013. It had it's world premiere in association with Collaboraction in Chicago in August 2013, and is made it's West Coast Premiere at Annex Theatre in Seattle in November 2014.

1st Produced:
Chicago     01 Aug 2013

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Collaboraction

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Genre:
dark comedy 60 min

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Male:  -            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Jason&Julia

Synopsis:
Through a series of snapshots from the night Jason and Julia meet to the night they break up, jason&julia captures a millennial relationship through poetry, hyper-naturalism, and a snowstorm.

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1st Produced:
Workshop, Williamstown Theatre Festival     2014

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Genre:
one act play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Kingdom Come

Synopsis:
Samantha is lonely and confined to her bed. Layne is shy and too afraid of the world to journey into it. When both women decide that online dating might be the outlet they need, they venture into the wilds of the Internet and find deep connection in each other. The only problem: theyre each pretending to be someone else. What happens when the feelings are real but the people are not?

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1st Produced:
Roundabout Underground Production     Fall 2016

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Nina

Synopsis:
Meet Nina: shes from Florida, she grew up in the 90s, and she talks to her Mom six times a day. Shaken by the news that her best friend/back-up husband is marrying her polar opposite, Nina is catapulted back to the traumatic time of her Bat Mitzvah, when she first realized how scary it is to grow up. Stuck in a mid-twenties limbo, not quite on Broadway, yet not back in Florida married to a Jewish doctor, Nina wonders if she will ever find her own way. Who is Nina if shes not who she thought she would be?

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1st Produced:
University, Fordham/Primary Stages     2014

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Genre:
Full-Length Play

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Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Pie Town

Synopsis:
Pie Town, NM, population 60, lives for their Annual Pie Festival. But when the town's pride and joy shows up after being gone for fifteen years, the festival is compromised, and the town sent into disarray in this small town farce.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Stagedream

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written by Lee Overtree and Jenny Rachel Weiner

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Summer On The High Seas

Synopsis:
group of Musical Theatre Cruise Ship Performers try to save a sinking ship.

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1st Produced:
Tiny Rhino     Jun 2014

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Genre:
ten min play

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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