Jacquelyn Reingold

Jacquelyn writes for theatre and television. Her play "Fear Less" a 2025 O'Neill finalist & Moxie Incubator finalist, had a workshop at Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC, 2025. Her play "Kiss Me Somewhere Else" had a reading at The Tent Theater, directed by Melia Bensussen, with Chris Bannow, Jonathan Hadary, Jayne Houdyshell, Alison Pill, 2025. Her play "A Story About a Girl" was a 2026 finalist for the Voices of Women Festival, and had a reading at the Axial Theater, NY, directed by Cady McClain, 2025. Her one-act "Luggage" won the 2025 Hollywood Short & Sweet Festival's "Audience Favorite," then was directed by Geoffrey Nauffts and acted by Jodie Markell & Ken Marks at Winged Monkeys, and was read at The Tent Theater Benefit with Judith Ivey & Reed Birney, 2025 Her one-act "Are There Still...

Jacquelyn writes for theatre and television. Her play "Fear Less" a 2025 O'Neill finalist & Moxie Incubator finalist, had a workshop at Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC, 2025. Her play "Kiss Me Somewhere Else" had a reading at The Tent Theater, directed by Melia Bensussen, with Chris Bannow, Jonathan Hadary, Jayne Houdyshell, Alison Pill, 2025. Her play "A Story About a Girl" was a 2026 finalist for the Voices of Women Festival, and had a reading at the Axial Theater, NY, directed by Cady McClain, 2025. Her one-act "Luggage" won the 2025 Hollywood Short & Sweet Festival's "Audience Favorite," then was directed by Geoffrey Nauffts and acted by Jodie Markell & Ken Marks at Winged Monkeys, and was read at The Tent Theater Benefit with Judith Ivey & Reed Birney, 2025 Her one-act "Are There Still Sandwiches?" will be produced in Aaron Leventman's "People Have the Power 2.0," festival, Santa Fe, in 2026, and was in EST's Happy Hour. Her one-act "Like Miriam" was produced by the Axial Theater, NY. She did the 24 Hour Plays Broadway 2023, with Nadia Dajani, Seth Gilliam, David Krumholtz, Alison Pill, T.R. Knight. Other plays, which include "String Fever," (starring Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler), "I Know," "They Float Up," "Up and Down," "Girl Gone," "A Very Very Short Play," and "Dear Kenneth Blake" have been seen in New York at EST, Naked Angels, Theatre for One, MCC, HERE; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Theatre J in Washington DC; Portland Center Stage in Oregon; PlayLabs in Minneapolis; and in London, Dublin, Belgrade, Berlin, Taiwan, Peru, Hong Kong. Four of her short plays have been recorded for radio/podcast by Playing On Air. For television, Jackie was a Writer/Executive Producer for the critically acclaimed "The Good Fight." Other TV writing includes a pilot for John Wells, CBS' "East New York," "BrainDead," Netflix's "Grace and Frankie," "Smash," and all the "Mia" episodes for Emmy nominated Gabriel Byrne and Hope Davis for HBO’s "In Treatment." Playwriting honors and awards include: the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays, New York Foundation for the Arts, two EST/Sloan Foundation commissions, New Dramatists' Whitfield Cook Award, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Greenwall Foundation's Oscar Reubhausen Commission, plus Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross, & Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowships. Her work has been published in two "Women Playwrights: The Best Plays," several "Best American Short Plays," various "Best Monologues," and by Samuel French, Vintage Books, and Smith & Kraus. A collection of her one-acts "Things Between Us," is published by DPS. Jacquelyn is an alum of New Dramatists, a member of Ensemble Studio Theater, and a founding member of "Honor Roll!" an advocacy group for women+ playwrights over 40, whose goal is inclusion in the theater. She wrote the Preface to "10 Minute Plays by Women+ over 40" and "100 Monologues by Women+ over 40." She has taught dramatic writing at NYU, SUNY Stonybrook-Manhattan, Columbia University, Ohio University, and is a frequent guest artist/teacher. She and playwright Cheryl Davis are on a campaign to meet with all of NYC's theaters to advocate for women+ playwrights over 50. She's a proud mentor for Young Playwrights Ukraine. Jacquelyn received a 2023 Lilly Award as a playwright and advocate.

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Scripts

Luggage

by Jacquelyn Reingold

1
Cast Size
1—2
Genre
comedy,
romantic comedy

When the last person you want to see, the ex you hate the most, is suddenly... there. And staying there.

When the last person you want to see, the ex you hate the most, is suddenly... there. And staying there.

Kiss Me Somewhere Else

by Jacquelyn Reingold

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical,
romantic comedy

Love seems impossible when tiny Teena meets giant Eddie, especially when Teena's monstrous Mother insists Eddie's not monstrous Father keep their adult kids apart. But in this incongruous outrageous fairy tale crashed into a Borscht Belt feminist comedy, the opposite happens to all of them, and love changes everyone. With a climax in an unusual spot.

Love seems impossible when tiny Teena meets giant Eddie, especially when Teena's monstrous Mother insists Eddie's not monstrous Father keep their adult kids apart. But in this incongruous outrageous fairy tale crashed into a Borscht Belt feminist comedy, the opposite happens to all of them, and love changes everyone. With a climax in an unusual spot.

Are There Still Sandwiches?

by Jacquelyn Reingold

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
movement/physical,
parody/spoof

When TV writers go on strike, union solidarity clashes with petty jealousy, especially when it's f'ing hot on the picket line. And everyone needs a sandwich. And no one has a job.

When TV writers go on strike, union solidarity clashes with petty jealousy, especially when it's f'ing hot on the picket line. And everyone needs a sandwich. And no one has a job.

A Story About a Girl

by Jacquelyn Reingold

8
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical,
romantic comedy

Once upon a time there was a neurodiverse girl who had no words. She met an outcast boy who had no friends. They make their own language of love, friendship and ultimate betrayal as they journey through life with and without each other.

Once upon a time there was a neurodiverse girl who had no words. She met an outcast boy who had no friends. They make their own language of love, friendship and ultimate betrayal as they journey through life with and without each other.

Acapulco

by Jacquelyn Reingold

3
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
farce,
parody/spoof,
period,
romantic comedy

It's 1966, it's Brooklyn, it's Acapulco. Meet Doris, a soon to be divorced New Yorker, her frisky boyfriend who dyes his chest hair, a mysterious woman who’s really a man, her lying sociopath of a husband, a scheming laundress mother-in-law, and the Whore of Brooklyn. A swinging 1960’s comedy, except it isn't.

It's 1966, it's Brooklyn, it's Acapulco. Meet Doris, a soon to be divorced New Yorker, her frisky boyfriend who dyes his chest hair, a mysterious woman who’s really a man, her lying sociopath of a husband, a scheming laundress mother-in-law, and the Whore of Brooklyn. A swinging 1960’s comedy, except it isn't.

String Fever

by Jacquelyn Reingold

1
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

In this comedy, which starred Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler Off-Broadway, Lily juggles the big issues: turning forty, artificial insemination and the elusive scientific Theory of Everything. Lily’s world includes an Icelandic comedian, her wisecracking best friend, a cat-loving physicist, her no-longer-suicidal father and an ex-boyfriend who carries around a chair. “A funny offbeat and touching look at...

In this comedy, which starred Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler Off-Broadway, Lily juggles the big issues: turning forty, artificial insemination and the elusive scientific Theory of Everything. Lily’s world includes an Icelandic comedian, her wisecracking best friend, a cat-loving physicist, her no-longer-suicidal father and an ex-boyfriend who carries around a chair. “A funny offbeat and touching look at relationships…an appealing romantic comedy populated by oddball characters.” —NY Daily News. “Where kooky, zany, and madcap meet…whimsically winsome.” —NY Magazine. “STRING FEVER will have audience members happily stringing along.” —TheaterMania.com. “Reingold’s language is surprising, inventive, and unique.” —NYTheatre.com. “…[a] whimsical comic voice.” —Time Out NY.

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Girl Gone

by Jacquelyn Reingold

Cast Size
8
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
movement/physical,
mystery/thriller,
political

When Tish, bar dancer, loses her best friend, she becomes obsessed with who killed her and why. From the past to the present, in and out of Tish’s mind, topless bar, to a hustler’s apartment, to the middle of the street, she tries to put the pieces back together. “The mysteries of life, death and survival in the city, of friendships among women and relationships between the sexes are explored… the playwright...

When Tish, bar dancer, loses her best friend, she becomes obsessed with who killed her and why. From the past to the present, in and out of Tish’s mind, topless bar, to a hustler’s apartment, to the middle of the street, she tries to put the pieces back together. “The mysteries of life, death and survival in the city, of friendships among women and relationships between the sexes are explored… the playwright displays admirable talent and generates plenty of interest, tension and ideas.” —NY Times. “…an authentic and authentically theatrical voice…” —Variety. “Taut and tawdry suspense drama…” —Daily Record.

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Like Miriam

by Jacquelyn Reingold

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama

A one-act. How do you tell your best friend the one thing she doesn't want to know? Two women in their 40s-50's. With love, forever.

A one-act. How do you tell your best friend the one thing she doesn't want to know? Two women in their 40s-50's. With love, forever.

A Very Very Short Play

by Jacquelyn Reingold

12
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
romantic comedy

A tiny woman meets a nervous man in an airplane. An impossible yet romantic comedy while flying and dancing in the clouds.

A tiny woman meets a nervous man in an airplane. An impossible yet romantic comedy while flying and dancing in the clouds.

They Float Up

by Jacquelyn Reingold

3
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
movement/physical

It's a bar in post Katrina New Orleans. Joan, white, 40s, from upstate NY, meets Darnell, 20s, Black, a local, and wants him to help her find a job as .... dancer. In a bar. In New Orleans. A comedic drama with a political heart.

It's a bar in post Katrina New Orleans. Joan, white, 40s, from upstate NY, meets Darnell, 20s, Black, a local, and wants him to help her find a job as .... dancer. In a bar. In New Orleans. A comedic drama with a political heart.

I Know

by Jacquelyn Reingold

5
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

Lila and Daniel, together for decades, are actors in their 60s/70s. When he comes home after another failed audition, Lila is kicking him out. Surprise. Then another surprise. Then another. A short comedic drama about love and commitment.

Lila and Daniel, together for decades, are actors in their 60s/70s. When he comes home after another failed audition, Lila is kicking him out. Surprise. Then another surprise. Then another. A short comedic drama about love and commitment.

Things Between Us. Nine Short Plays.

by Jacquelyn Reingold

Cast Size
2—11
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
farce,
romantic comedy

Nine short plays that have been produced in NY at Ensemble Studio Theater, Naked Angels, HB Playwrights Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, across the US, and in London, Hong Kong, Lima, Berlin. Included here: 2B (OR NOT) 2B, (1m 1w) where a woman who falls for a bee; FOR-EVERETT (1w 2m), a bittersweet memory on a beach; JOE AND STEW’S THEATRE OF BROTHERLY LOVE AND FINANCIAL SUCCESS, two theatre-loving...

Nine short plays that have been produced in NY at Ensemble Studio Theater, Naked Angels, HB Playwrights Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, across the US, and in London, Hong Kong, Lima, Berlin. Included here: 2B (OR NOT) 2B, (1m 1w) where a woman who falls for a bee; FOR-EVERETT (1w 2m), a bittersweet memory on a beach; JOE AND STEW’S THEATRE OF BROTHERLY LOVE AND FINANCIAL SUCCESS, two theatre-loving cockroaches at the end of the world; DEAR KENNETH BLAKE (1m 1w) a Cambodian immigrant who proposes to a homeless man; TUNNEL OF LOVE (2m, 4w); a woman without a vagina—who gets one.

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Freeze Tag

by Jacquelyn Reingold

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy

When 20something Andrea tries to buy a newspaper in New York's '90s East Village, from Aldrich, two women's lives will never be the same. “Gripping... the revelations rise from the amusing to the hilarious.” – The New York Times “An extraordinary play... unforgettable.” – Back Stage “Really terrific.” – The New York Press

When 20something Andrea tries to buy a newspaper in New York's '90s East Village, from Aldrich, two women's lives will never be the same. “Gripping... the revelations rise from the amusing to the hilarious.” – The New York Times “An extraordinary play... unforgettable.” – Back Stage “Really terrific.” – The New York Press

A.M.L.

by Jacquelyn Reingold

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
experimental

One-act. Five young women embody the thoughts of one, surviving her boyfriend’s leukemia.

One-act. Five young women embody the thoughts of one, surviving her boyfriend’s leukemia.