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Jenny Rachel Weiner

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, O’Neill Semi-Finalist 2016, 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 O’Neill Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Northlight Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, and Roundabout Theatre Company. BFA: Boston University, MFA: Fordham University/Primary Stages. Jenny currently attends the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. When Jenny isn’t writing plays, you can catch her directing and performing with NYC/LA based theatre company Story Pirates.www.jennyrachelweiner.com

Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence
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Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence

Jenny Rachel Weiner

21 October 2016

Jenny Rachel Weiner writes about her residency at Roundabout Theatre Company.