Jen Diamond is a Brooklyn-based playwright, screenwriter, and very chill girl. She writes spooky, funny plays about friendship, girlhood, and the performance of self.
Some of her plays include Pageant Play (Finalist, National Playwrights Conference 2024; Roundtable Reading Series 2023, Hunter College), The Bad Guy (Appalachian Festival of Plays & Playwrights 2024, The Barter Theatre), Porn: A Love Story (Honorable Mention, Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards 2023; Cohesion Theatre Company), The Alibi Play (Baltimore Theatre Project; Recipient, Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant), and Here We Are (Kennedy Center/Page-to-Stage; Interrobang Theatre).
Jen is a current Woodward Resident. She has been a Finalist for SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Come to the Table Residency and The Bechdel...
Jen Diamond is a Brooklyn-based playwright, screenwriter, and very chill girl. She writes spooky, funny plays about friendship, girlhood, and the performance of self.
Some of her plays include Pageant Play (Finalist, National Playwrights Conference 2024; Roundtable Reading Series 2023, Hunter College), The Bad Guy (Appalachian Festival of Plays & Playwrights 2024, The Barter Theatre), Porn: A Love Story (Honorable Mention, Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards 2023; Cohesion Theatre Company), The Alibi Play (Baltimore Theatre Project; Recipient, Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant), and Here We Are (Kennedy Center/Page-to-Stage; Interrobang Theatre).
Jen is a current Woodward Resident. She has been a Finalist for SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Come to the Table Residency and The Bechdel Project’s ROO Residency (2024), a Semi-Finalist for WP Lab and the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator (2024), a Wright-Right-Now Playwright at Baltimore Center Stage, and a Finalist for the City Theatre National Award (2019).
Other work has been presented or developed at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Dixon Place, City Theatre Miami, American Lives Theatre, The Tank, and others. When she’s not writing for the theatre, she makes up one-half of the indie-comedy duo OLGA. In 2021, OLGA’s original comedy pilot, A Whole Production, was the winner of the Austin Film Festival’s Warner Bros. Entertainment Pilot Award.
Jen holds a B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and a MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College (class of 2024).