Jean P. Bordewich draws on a lifetime of experience in and around politics for her plays, which take the audience behind the scenes of dramatic political events, including key historical moments, and infuses the stories with contemporary meaning.
She is currently writing a play about the most controversial election in US history and what it means today. Two of her full-length plays, “HUNT,” and "Marriage, Lizards and Love," were produced in the Washington, DC Fringe Festival, where HUNT received a "Best of the Fringe" award. HUNT also has received two public readings in Washington, DC, and one in San Francisco. Her latest full-length play, "Now's the Time," is about Reconstruction and the fight over racial equality and political power. It has received public readings in Washington, DC...
Jean P. Bordewich draws on a lifetime of experience in and around politics for her plays, which take the audience behind the scenes of dramatic political events, including key historical moments, and infuses the stories with contemporary meaning.
She is currently writing a play about the most controversial election in US history and what it means today. Two of her full-length plays, “HUNT,” and "Marriage, Lizards and Love," were produced in the Washington, DC Fringe Festival, where HUNT received a "Best of the Fringe" award. HUNT also has received two public readings in Washington, DC, and one in San Francisco. Her latest full-length play, "Now's the Time," is about Reconstruction and the fight over racial equality and political power. It has received public readings in Washington, DC and Lancaster, PA, and has been adapted for educational use. In 2021, she was commissioned to write two short plays about "bridging divides" for a reading series at Creative Cauldron Theater in Falls Church, VA.
Jean previously worked as a program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation in Menlo Park, CA, managing a portfolio of grants related to strengthening U.S. democracy. Earlier, she served more than five years as staff director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and staff director of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which was responsible for all events at the U.S. Capitol for the 2013 Inauguration of President Obama. She has run Congressional campaigns, including her own unsuccessful House bid, been chief of staff to a Congressman, and was elected three times to the council in her Hudson Valley home town.
Jean can be reached at jeanbordewich@gmail.com. She lives with her husband, historian and writer Fergus M. Bordewich, in Washington, DC.