Jessica Provenz

Productions and workshops include True Art (premiered at Dorset Theatre Festival with Jayne Atkinson and workshopped at Westport Country Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre, Directors Company), BOCA (published by TRW, premiered at Barrington Stage Company with productions around the country including GableStage, Florida Rep), A Wake on Chappaquiddick (Cape Cod Theatre Project, New Georges, Irish Rep), Andromeda (Barrow Group, Berkshire Playwrights Lab), Better than Chocolate (Juilliard), Tightrope (Barrington Stage). Jessica received commissions from Araca Group, Killer Films and Barrington Stage. Writer in Residence with Edith Wharton's The Mount / Straw Dogs. She has been a regular contributor to Berkshire Magazine and, for New York Magazine, wrote a feature about serving as Anthony Weiner’s...

Productions and workshops include True Art (premiered at Dorset Theatre Festival with Jayne Atkinson and workshopped at Westport Country Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre, Directors Company), BOCA (published by TRW, premiered at Barrington Stage Company with productions around the country including GableStage, Florida Rep), A Wake on Chappaquiddick (Cape Cod Theatre Project, New Georges, Irish Rep), Andromeda (Barrow Group, Berkshire Playwrights Lab), Better than Chocolate (Juilliard), Tightrope (Barrington Stage). Jessica received commissions from Araca Group, Killer Films and Barrington Stage. Writer in Residence with Edith Wharton's The Mount / Straw Dogs. She has been a regular contributor to Berkshire Magazine and, for New York Magazine, wrote a feature about serving as Anthony Weiner’s Policy Director. Researcher for "Masters of the Air" now on Apple +. A two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nouy Award for Emerging Playwrights, she received a B.S. from Northwestern University and was Artist-in-Residence at The Juilliard School. She is Director of Development at Barrington Stage in the Berkshires, MA.

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Scripts

BOCA

by Jessica Provenz

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Cast Size
5—11
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
farce,
romantic comedy,
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FULL LENGTH / PUBLISHED -- performed without an intermission.

Are you ready for some laughs? Soak up the good life in Boca Raton, a city that offers the fountain of youth. In this Garden of Eden, the sun always shines, the lawns are always manicured, and the weather holds steady at a perfect 75, just like Boca’s well-maintained seniors. Boca is a series of short intertwining comedies that follow a group of...

FULL LENGTH / PUBLISHED -- performed without an intermission.

Are you ready for some laughs? Soak up the good life in Boca Raton, a city that offers the fountain of youth. In this Garden of Eden, the sun always shines, the lawns are always manicured, and the weather holds steady at a perfect 75, just like Boca’s well-maintained seniors. Boca is a series of short intertwining comedies that follow a group of retirees in a fictional retirement community, the Boca Oasis, who, between rounds of golf, bridge and botox, discover the key to happiness lies within their very community.

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True Art

by Jessica Provenz

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama,
mystery/thriller,
romantic comedy

FULL LENGTH - performed in two acts

TRUE ART is a look at the underbelly of the art world. When art history major, Lauren Sanders, takes a job at a prominent museum, she finds herself swimming with sharks masked as art curators, directors, boards, and dealers. In this game of deception, Lauren navigates who to trust and questions everything she knows about art and truth and her own ambition.

FULL LENGTH - performed in two acts

TRUE ART is a look at the underbelly of the art world. When art history major, Lauren Sanders, takes a job at a prominent museum, she finds herself swimming with sharks masked as art curators, directors, boards, and dealers. In this game of deception, Lauren navigates who to trust and questions everything she knows about art and truth and her own ambition.

A Wake on Chappaquiddick

by Jessica Provenz

Cast Size
3
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
mystery/thriller,
period,
tragedy

FULL LENGTH -- Performed in three parts with an optional intermission after part 2.

A dramatic trilogy of unrequited love stories set in present day and in 1969, the year and the place of Senator Ted Kennedy's infamous island car crash.

FULL LENGTH -- Performed in three parts with an optional intermission after part 2.

A dramatic trilogy of unrequited love stories set in present day and in 1969, the year and the place of Senator Ted Kennedy's infamous island car crash.