Jeni is a playwright, director, dramaturg, artistic director and all around play development geek.
Her plays including FATA MORGANA, KANDAHAR, THE FEAST OF THE FLYING COW... AND OTHER STORIES OF WAR, COME RAIN OR COME SHINE, RUNNING IN CIRCLES SCREAMING, MERCY FALLS, THE MARTYRDOM OF WASHINGTON BOOTH, SCATTER, AMERICAN EYES and LIGHT have been presented at the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center, InterAct (Philadelphia), Greenwich Playhouse (London), And Toto Too Theater Company (Denver), L.A. Theater Center, MidWest New Play Festival (Chicago), Lark Theater's Playwrights Week, Rattlestick, NYU's hotINK Festival, Circus Theatricals, Key City Public Theater, Boston Theater Marathon and Boise Contemporary Theater, among others.
The World Premier of FATA MORGANA at Boise...
Jeni is a playwright, director, dramaturg, artistic director and all around play development geek.
Her plays including FATA MORGANA, KANDAHAR, THE FEAST OF THE FLYING COW... AND OTHER STORIES OF WAR, COME RAIN OR COME SHINE, RUNNING IN CIRCLES SCREAMING, MERCY FALLS, THE MARTYRDOM OF WASHINGTON BOOTH, SCATTER, AMERICAN EYES and LIGHT have been presented at the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center, InterAct (Philadelphia), Greenwich Playhouse (London), And Toto Too Theater Company (Denver), L.A. Theater Center, MidWest New Play Festival (Chicago), Lark Theater's Playwrights Week, Rattlestick, NYU's hotINK Festival, Circus Theatricals, Key City Public Theater, Boston Theater Marathon and Boise Contemporary Theater, among others.
The World Premier of FATA MORGANA at Boise Contemporary Theater was awarded an Artworks Grant by the National Endowment of the Arts, and selected as an Honorable Mention for the Kilroys List. THE FEAST OF THE FLYING COW... AND OTHER STORIES OF WAR was an Honorable Mention on the Kilroys List.
As Producing Artistic Director of Seven Devils New Play Foundry and Founder of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Jeni supported the development of over 260 new American plays that have gone on to production around the country, on Broadway, and around the world. The Conference is featured in Michael Wright's book Playwriting: At Work and Play and has been featured in American Theatre, The Dramatist, HowlRound, Stage Directions, and Idaho Arts Quarterly.
She has directed numerous developmental workshops and readings from New York City, to Durango, CO, to Port Townsend, WA including: WAR STORIES by Richard Dresser, THE DIZZINESS OF FREEDOM by Stephen Nathan (featuring Mike Ferrell), THE GARDEN OF MONSTERS by Mara Lathrop, OPTIMISM OR by A.P. Andrews, HOW TO HIDE YOUR MONSTERS by Heidi Kraay, CRAZYSKINNYSMALL by Sylvie Mae Baldwin and HOLD STEADY by Tira Palmquist.
Jeni has been inducted into the Indie Theater Hall of Fame, where she was also named one of the 2014 People of the Year. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the National Theatre Conference where she served on the Board for 6 years. Currently she serve on the Board of Fleischer Studios and OpenSky (an acting program working in the New Hampshire prison system.)
As a human, Jeni is an artist living with Multiple Sclerosis. When not doing all this theater stuff, she is also a web designer, video editor, certified nursing assistant and mom to a very special (and special needs) teenager and Special Olympics enthusiast.