Penny Jackson is a playwright, novelist and short story writer who lives in New York City. Selected plays include THE BATTLES OF RICHMOND HILL, I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT, SAFE, and LOUISE IN CHARLESTOWN. Her play, I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT, was the theater review site Theater Is Easy’s Best Bet for Off Broadway Theater. I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT was also chosen as one of the best plays in an Off Broadway production theater by NYTHEATER.COM and was the best selling play in 2014 for Indie Theater Now.
SAFE, which won best new play at the Planet Connections Theater Festivity in New York City and later produced at 59E59 and the Edinburgh Fringe at the Space/North Bridge Theater. This fall there was a new production of SAFE at The Theater at The 14th Street Y.
BITTEN, a site-specific play for a pub...
Penny Jackson is a playwright, novelist and short story writer who lives in New York City. Selected plays include THE BATTLES OF RICHMOND HILL, I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT, SAFE, and LOUISE IN CHARLESTOWN. Her play, I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT, was the theater review site Theater Is Easy’s Best Bet for Off Broadway Theater. I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT was also chosen as one of the best plays in an Off Broadway production theater by NYTHEATER.COM and was the best selling play in 2014 for Indie Theater Now.
SAFE, which won best new play at the Planet Connections Theater Festivity in New York City and later produced at 59E59 and the Edinburgh Fringe at the Space/North Bridge Theater. This fall there was a new production of SAFE at The Theater at The 14th Street Y.
BITTEN, a site-specific play for a pub, was the only American finalist for The Kenneth Branagh Award for Drama in The Windsor Fringe and was produced in Dublin in 2014.
Applause Theatre recently chose Jackson’s play BEFORE as one of the best American short plays in 2016. BEFORE won first prize in the gun control play competition sponsored by The University of Illinois-Urbana, and was featured in Necessary Exposure, an exhibit at Dixon Place Theater focusing on female playwrights.
Jackson’s novel, BECOMING THE BUTLERS, published by Bantam Books, was chosen as one of the best novels for young adults by The New York Public Library and was optioned for film by Warner Brothers.
Her short stories are published in literary magazines in The United States, England, Ireland and Scotland. Her short story collection, L.A. CHILD, published by Untreed Reads, features the title story that won a Pushcart Prize for best story in a literary magazine.
Awards include The Elizabeth Janeway Prize for writing from Barnard College, a Mirrelieis Fellowship for writing from Stanford University and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild, The League of Professional Theatre Women and The International Center of Women Playwrights.