Jenny Connell Davis

Jenny Connell Davis

Jenny Connell Davis is nice suburban mom and native of Maine living at the exact intersection of Blue Austin and Red Texas. She bakes cookies, volunteers for the Booster Club, and relentlessly undermines the lunatics trying to ban her kids' access to health care and excellent books.

Jenny is also an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and writer for television, whose plays have been...
Jenny Connell Davis is nice suburban mom and native of Maine living at the exact intersection of Blue Austin and Red Texas. She bakes cookies, volunteers for the Booster Club, and relentlessly undermines the lunatics trying to ban her kids' access to health care and excellent books.

Jenny is also an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and writer for television, whose plays have been developed and/or produced at the O'Neill, Ars Nova, Asolo Rep, Chance Theater, ACT (Seattle), Palm Beach Dramaworks and through NNPN. A native of Maine, she has developed work for SONY, Disney and Amazon, and works for the multi-emmy-winning Baobab Studios, developing stories across VR, tv, film, graphic novels, games and traditional novels. She is the Playwright in Residence and Literary Manager at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach, an ensemble member with the Gift Theatre in Chicago, and a regular trouble-maker at Chance Theatre in Orange County.

In past lives, she has tutored Saudi Royalty, lived with Valencian separatists, started theaters in Chicago, made rent as a performer in New York nightclubs, made minimum wage as a raspberry farmer and dishwasher, and served as college counselor at a private school in Park Slope. She makes an excellent pillow fort.
Mgmt: Daniela Gonzalez, Good Fear Films

Plays

  • ANTON CHEKHOV IS A TASTY SNACK by Jenny Connell Davis
    Recommendations: 1
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    5
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Chekhov, comedy + 5 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Chekhov, comedy, theater, art, gender, love, Workplace politics
    A small theater company with big ambitions decides to mount the best dang production of Chekhov's The Seagull that this town has ever seen. But as the rehearsal process draws on for months, art imitates life imitating art and the whole cast goes increasingly around the bend. A wildly fast-and-loose adaptation of The Seagull, Jenny Connell Davis's new comedy takes on the absurdity of making theater.
  • The Messenger by Jenny Connell Davis
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 2 more
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    Keyword: antisemitism, intersectional politics + 5 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, political
    Keyword: antisemitism, intersectional politics, justice, women, Holocaust, education, History
    A meditation on the connections between past, present, and future, and on the choice between speaking up and speaking out regardless of the consequences or remaining silent for the sake of self-preservation. Inspired by the life of Hungarian Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor, the play interweaves her story with that of a young American woman facing racial discrimination in this country in 2020.
  • MATINICUS by Jenny Connell Davis
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 1 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama
    A girl. A rock. A lighthouse. Endless frigid ocean. A storm.
    Inspired by the true story of Maine folk heroine Abigail Burgess, this is a story of community, isolation, and resilience in the face of forces far greater than ourselves.
  • AS I SEE IT by Jenny Connell Davis
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: biography, drama
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    Keyword: art
    Genre: biography, drama
    Keyword: art
    Painter Alice Neel is tired in working in obscurity at the fringes of the New York art scene. Poet Frank O'Hara, curator for the MoMA and gay playboy, is its gatekeeper. Neel convinces him to let her paint his portrait and over the course of five sittings these two forces of nature test each other, best each other, and reveal themselves in ways they never imagined. Inspired by real people and events -- and...
    Painter Alice Neel is tired in working in obscurity at the fringes of the New York art scene. Poet Frank O'Hara, curator for the MoMA and gay playboy, is its gatekeeper. Neel convinces him to let her paint his portrait and over the course of five sittings these two forces of nature test each other, best each other, and reveal themselves in ways they never imagined. Inspired by real people and events -- and paintings -- this play is a rendering of two brilliant outcasts clawing their way to fame in Mad Men-era NYC.
  • END OF SHIFT by Jenny Connell Davis
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, young audiences
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    Keyword: Toxic Masculinity, assault + 2 more
    Genre: drama, young audiences
    Keyword: Toxic Masculinity, assault, Adolescence, young love
    It’s the end of a long day washing dishes at the Spurwink Country Kitchen, and friends-for-life Jesse, Ben, and Max are on a mission to create a fitting memorial to their fallen hometown hero. But when the prettiest girl in town shows up on their doorstep, everything the boys know about love, life and loyalty gets called into question. A play about toxic masculinity, adolescence, assault, and how to move forward.
  • SCIENTIFIC METHOD by Jenny Connell Davis
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: science, Co-workers + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: science, Co-workers, women
    Amy’s a cutting-edge cancer researcher on the edge of a breakthrough…and the edge of a nervous breakdown. When her big project gets “scooped,” and a handsome new colleague starts asking questions, Amy discovers that she’s the one under the microscope.
  • The Dragon Play by Jenny Connell Davis
    Recommendations: 2
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    4–6
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Fantasy, language
    Genre: drama, fantasy, melodrama
    Keyword: Fantasy, language
    On a lonely farm in northern Minnesota, a husband and wife's peaceful existence is shattered by the appearance of an unexpected visitor. On a hot stretch of highway in central Texas, a boy befriends a wounded dragon. Spanning two moments in time and space and blurring the lines between each, The Dragon Play explores what happens when reality and fantasy converge, when desire and duty conflict, and when our...
    On a lonely farm in northern Minnesota, a husband and wife's peaceful existence is shattered by the appearance of an unexpected visitor. On a hot stretch of highway in central Texas, a boy befriends a wounded dragon. Spanning two moments in time and space and blurring the lines between each, The Dragon Play explores what happens when reality and fantasy converge, when desire and duty conflict, and when our deepest secrets show up breathing fire.
  • GODDESS OF MERCY by Jenny Connell Davis
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: women, Global + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: women, Global, Relationships
    Kate and Mike struggle to hold it together as they juggle their fraying relationship, a major renovation, and his transcontinental commute. When Mike’s sister Brianna crash-lands on their couch after three years in the Peace Corps, and finds out Mike’s oil company is sending him to hush up trouble in the same part of Asia she just left, their opposing views provoke an international incident. A contemporary...
    Kate and Mike struggle to hold it together as they juggle their fraying relationship, a major renovation, and his transcontinental commute. When Mike’s sister Brianna crash-lands on their couch after three years in the Peace Corps, and finds out Mike’s oil company is sending him to hush up trouble in the same part of Asia she just left, their opposing views provoke an international incident. A contemporary drama full of acid-laced humor, GODDESS OF MERCY asks tough questions about what it means to "mind our own business" in a rapidly-shrinking world.