Jamie Pachino

Jamie Pachino

JAMIE PACHINO is an award winning playwright, screenwriter and TV writer with national and international credits. Jamie's plays have been developed, commissioned, and produced by such companies as Steppenwolf, American Conservatory Theatre, Lincoln Center's LCT3, the Roundabout, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Northlight, San Jose Rep, the York, Geva, Pasadena Playhouse, and the Women Playwrights Festival...
JAMIE PACHINO is an award winning playwright, screenwriter and TV writer with national and international credits. Jamie's plays have been developed, commissioned, and produced by such companies as Steppenwolf, American Conservatory Theatre, Lincoln Center's LCT3, the Roundabout, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Northlight, San Jose Rep, the York, Geva, Pasadena Playhouse, and the Women Playwrights Festival in Athens, Greece, among dozens of others. She has been named the winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays production grant, the Laurie Foundation’s Visionary Award, the Francesca Primus Prize, and Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson (“Jeff”) Award for Best New Work. She is the only three time winner of the Ashland New Plays Festival, and her plays have been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Illinois Governor’s Award, featured on the Kilroys' List, and named Runner-up for the Osborn Award (American Theater Critics Association) and Jane Chambers Award. Jamie’s film work includes features for Disney, DreamWorks, Lionsgate, Vanguard Films and Walden Media, teleplays for Amazon, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Lifetime Television, the Hallmark Channel, and UP networks. Jamie is currently writing on a new TV series for FX, writing pilots for Netflix, NBC and Bad Robot, and has written on the TV series Sneaky Pete (Amazon), The Right Stuff (Disney+), The Brave (NBC/Universal), Chicago PD (NBC/Universal), Halt and Catch Fire (AMC), Franklin & Bash (TNT), and Fairly Legal (USA). Jamie has taught at Northwestern University (her alma mater), Columbia College, and the University of California at Irvine. She is a proud member of the WGA, The Playwrights Center, and the International Center for Women Playwrights. More at www.jamiepachino.com.

Plays

  • OTHER THAN HONORABLE
    Timely and urgent. — A former Army officer (now lawyer) reluctantly takes on a military sexual assault case, re-opening old wounds, and forcing her to confront her past, along with the real meaning of "code of honor". Premiere at Geva Theatre.
  • SPLITTING INFINITY
    God, science, the overlap between them, and the wedges that keep them apart, wrapped in a love story. — A Nobel prizewinning astrophysicist goes after evidence of God, through physics, jeopardizing her 40 year friendship with her best friend-- a Rabbi that's been in love with her since they were 10-- and the post-doc she's having an affair with, the son of a Christian scientist.
  • SOME OF THE PEOPLE, ALL OF THE TIME
    The director of a major art museum falls in love with a woman who may or may not be an art forger.
  • WAVING GOODBYE
    Loss, grief, change, making art, wishing things were different, finding love, not turning into your mother, and those irrevocable moments after which nothing is ever the same. — A 17 year old photographer loses her father in a mountain climbing accident, and spends her 17th year with the mother who abandoned her.
  • THE RETURN TO MORALITY
    Bracingly current. — A liberal college professor writes a scathing satire of the far right. His plan? Lay out the most outrageously racist, homophobic, sexist, isolationist ideas, build the American people into a lather, THEN reveal his liberal cred... too late. His book is published non-fiction and before he knows it, it's heralded by the far right and militia groups as a manifesto, and Arthur becomes the...
    Bracingly current. — A liberal college professor writes a scathing satire of the far right. His plan? Lay out the most outrageously racist, homophobic, sexist, isolationist ideas, build the American people into a lather, THEN reveal his liberal cred... too late. His book is published non-fiction and before he knows it, it's heralded by the far right and militia groups as a manifesto, and Arthur becomes the poster boy for all he once sought to fight. Soon he's interviewed by Sixty Minutes, abandoned by his wife, and ultimately blackmailed into giving the keynote speech at the Republican National Convention, live.
  • RACE
    Adaptation of Studs Terkel's bestseller about race in America. (Available in full length/90 minute and 40 minute/educational versions)
  • AURORA'S MOTIVE
    Mother. Daughter. Feminism. Murder. The true story of Aurora Rodriguez and the prodigy daughter she raised, educated, worshiped, and ultimately murdered.
  • THEODORA: AN UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY
    Historians across the ages (490, 1090, 1590, 1890, and 1990) offer up the "expose" of Theodora, the courtesan, actress and eventual Byzantine Empress alternately painted by history as a despot, romantic heroine, revolutionary, and nymphomaniac.
  • Things I Was Supposed to Do Today (Burn Down the House)
    Things I Was Supposed to Do Today (Burn Down the House) is what happens when an overwhelmed homemaker and mom gets a little too much advice from glossy magazines (and their representatives) as her to-do list gets longer and longer.