JENNIFER FAWCETT - PLAYWRIGHT
BIO
Jennifer is the winner of the NNPN Smith Prizeand the Susan Glaspell Award for Apples in Winter, the NEFA National Theatre Project Award(with her company Working Group Theatre) forOut of Bounds, the Kennedy Center’s National Science Playwriting Awardfor Atlas of Mud, and she was nominated for the ATCA/Steinberg New Play Awardfor Birth Witches.
Her plays have been produced at Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis), Urbanite Theatre (Sarasota), Centenary Stage Company (Hackettstown, NJ), Riverside Theatre (Iowa City), the Source Festival (Washington, DC), Hancher Auditorium (University of Iowa), Available Light Theatre (Columbus), Uprising Theatre Company (Minneapolis), Halcyon Theatre (Chicago), the Drilling Company (New York), SummerWorks Theatre Festival (Toronto), the Rhubarb! Festival (Toronto), and the Blyth Festival (Blyth, ON), among others.
She has developed work at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor Summer Residency, the Lark (New York), Palm Beach Dramaworks (West Palm Beach), the Banff Playwrights Colony (Canada), the Little Festival of the Unexpected (Portland, ME), the Inkwell (Washington, DC), and the NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Workshop, Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell (Toronto). A graduate of the University of Iowa MFA Playwrights Workshop, she was the NNPN Playwright-In-Residence at Curious Theatre Company (Denver).
She is a co-founder of Working Group Theatre (WGT), an award-winning company whose methodology blends interview-based material with fictional stories to create plays that are highly theatrical but grounded in the experiences of the audience.
PLAYS - LICENSED THROUGH THE TALENT HOUSE:
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JANEY JONES