Jennifer Blackmer

Jennifer Blackmer’s plays have been produced off-Broadway and across the country, and include Human Terrain, Unraveled, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (Joseph Jefferson award for Best Adaptation), Delicate Particle Logic, Borrowed Babies and Predictor. Jennifer was the recipient of the 2015 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award for Emerging American Playwright, and her screenplay for Human Terrain won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award through the Tribeca Film Institute and was a finalist for the Sundance Sloan Prize. Jennifer is a two-time O’Neill finalist, her writing has been short-listed for the Princess Grace Award and the Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship, and has been developed by Seven Devils, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Repertory Theatre, The...

Jennifer Blackmer’s plays have been produced off-Broadway and across the country, and include Human Terrain, Unraveled, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (Joseph Jefferson award for Best Adaptation), Delicate Particle Logic, Borrowed Babies and Predictor. Jennifer was the recipient of the 2015 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award for Emerging American Playwright, and her screenplay for Human Terrain won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award through the Tribeca Film Institute and was a finalist for the Sundance Sloan Prize. Jennifer is a two-time O’Neill finalist, her writing has been short-listed for the Princess Grace Award and the Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship, and has been developed by Seven Devils, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Repertory Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, The Lark and Activate Midwest. She serves as Professor of Theatre and Director of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University.

Visit Jennifer’s website at www.jenniferblackmer.com.

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Scripts

Predictor

by Jennifer Blackmer

18
Cast Size
7
Genre
adaptation,
biography,
comedy,
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical,
period,
political

PREDICTOR is the real-life story of Margaret Crane who, in 1967, defied all odds and expectations to become the inventor of the first home pregnancy test.

PREDICTOR is the real-life story of Margaret Crane who, in 1967, defied all odds and expectations to become the inventor of the first home pregnancy test.

I Carry Your Heart With Me

by Jennifer Blackmer

3
Cast Size
1
Genre
drama,
experimental,
mystery/thriller,
verse

Esther Shannon is a government stenographer working for the US Air Force during the Vietnam War. Lonely, conflicted, and haunted by voices and stories from her past, Esther finds herself smack dab in the middle of a troubling investigation.

Esther Shannon is a government stenographer working for the US Air Force during the Vietnam War. Lonely, conflicted, and haunted by voices and stories from her past, Esther finds herself smack dab in the middle of a troubling investigation.

Borrowed Babies

by Jennifer Blackmer

4
Cast Size
7—8
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
period,
political

As Judy London nears the end of her career as a Professor of Home Economics, an encounter with one of her former “practice babies” leads her to question her life’s journey and the sacrifices she’s made along the way. Loosely based on the practice and former operation of university “practice houses” for home economics students, BORROWED BABIES explores the ever-evolving role of women and mothers in American...

As Judy London nears the end of her career as a Professor of Home Economics, an encounter with one of her former “practice babies” leads her to question her life’s journey and the sacrifices she’s made along the way. Loosely based on the practice and former operation of university “practice houses” for home economics students, BORROWED BABIES explores the ever-evolving role of women and mothers in American society over the last sixty years.

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Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace

by Jennifer Blackmer

Cast Size
9
Genre
adaptation,
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
mystery/thriller,
period

Based on Margaret Atwood's novel, this stage adaptation of Alias Grace takes a look at one of Canada’s most notorious murderers. In 1843, 16-year-old Grace Marks was accused of brutally murdering her employer and his housekeeper. Imprisoned for years, Grace still swears she has no memory of the killings. A doctor in the emerging field of mental health arrives to try to find out the truth of the matter. Alias...

Based on Margaret Atwood's novel, this stage adaptation of Alias Grace takes a look at one of Canada’s most notorious murderers. In 1843, 16-year-old Grace Marks was accused of brutally murdering her employer and his housekeeper. Imprisoned for years, Grace still swears she has no memory of the killings. A doctor in the emerging field of mental health arrives to try to find out the truth of the matter. Alias Grace is a fascinating study of memory, culpability, and the shadowy spaces within the human mind.

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Human Terrain

by Jennifer Blackmer

8
Cast Size
7
Genre
adventure,
drama,
mystery/thriller,
political

An anthropologist embeds with a military unit in Iraq, and must face the consequences when she befriends a local woman.

An anthropologist embeds with a military unit in Iraq, and must face the consequences when she befriends a local woman.

Unraveled

by Jennifer Blackmer

3
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
science fiction

As a professor of physics and philosophy, Joy has spent her life exploring theories of space and time, but none of that has prepared her for the reality of watching cancer unravel her mother’s mind and body. As the hard work of care-taking begins to take its toll, she hires Anna, a hospice nurse, to help her mother. But when the rules of space and time no longer provide Joy the answers she needs, can Anna's...

As a professor of physics and philosophy, Joy has spent her life exploring theories of space and time, but none of that has prepared her for the reality of watching cancer unravel her mother’s mind and body. As the hard work of care-taking begins to take its toll, she hires Anna, a hospice nurse, to help her mother. But when the rules of space and time no longer provide Joy the answers she needs, can Anna's simple lessons of how to care for another person help Joy knit the pieces of her life together again?

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Delicate Particle Logic

by Jennifer Blackmer

Cast Size
5
Genre
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
movement/physical,
period

Heralded as the woman who stole the bomb from the Nazis, physicist Lise Meitner became a human enigma when she fled battle-ravaged Germany directly into obscurity. The war long over, she visits with the painter Edith Hahn, wife of chemist Otto Hahn, and the two women reminisce, open up old wounds, and dissect the teeming worlds of possibility.

Heralded as the woman who stole the bomb from the Nazis, physicist Lise Meitner became a human enigma when she fled battle-ravaged Germany directly into obscurity. The war long over, she visits with the painter Edith Hahn, wife of chemist Otto Hahn, and the two women reminisce, open up old wounds, and dissect the teeming worlds of possibility.