Jen Diamond

Jen Diamond is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter. She writes spooky, funny plays about friendship, girlhood, and the performance of self.

Jen is a current member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group. She was a 2024/2025 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow and was a 2025 Finalist for the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission. She has been a Finalist for the O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference, the Circle in the Square Emerging Writers Residency, SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Come to the Table Residency, City Theatre National Award, and The Bechdel Project’s ROO Residency.

Her work has been presented or developed at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Dixon Place, The Barter Theatre, The Brick Aux, Good Apples Collective, City Theatre Miami, American Lives...

Jen Diamond is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter. She writes spooky, funny plays about friendship, girlhood, and the performance of self.

Jen is a current member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group. She was a 2024/2025 Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow and was a 2025 Finalist for the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission. She has been a Finalist for the O’Neill Center’s National Playwrights Conference, the Circle in the Square Emerging Writers Residency, SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Come to the Table Residency, City Theatre National Award, and The Bechdel Project’s ROO Residency.

Her work has been presented or developed at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Dixon Place, The Barter Theatre, The Brick Aux, Good Apples Collective, City Theatre Miami, American Lives Theatre, Firehouse Theatre, The Tank, and others.

When she’s not writing for the theatre, she makes up one-half of the indie-comedy duo OLGA. In 2021, OLGA’s original comedy pilot, A Whole Production, was the winner of the Austin Film Festival’s Warner Bros. Entertainment Pilot Award.

Jen holds a B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and a MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College.

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Scripts

Pageant Play

by Jen Diamond

5
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

Each year, Derby, Nevada (population 3,529) hosts the Derby Dolls Pageant to commemorate the sacrifices the town's foremothers made when they resorted to cannibalism in order to survive a snowstorm. In this laugh out loud, break your heart comedy about teetering on the brink of womanhood, four pageant girls compete to win the Derby Dolls crown, only to discover that there are more ways to be a woman than they...

Each year, Derby, Nevada (population 3,529) hosts the Derby Dolls Pageant to commemorate the sacrifices the town's foremothers made when they resorted to cannibalism in order to survive a snowstorm. In this laugh out loud, break your heart comedy about teetering on the brink of womanhood, four pageant girls compete to win the Derby Dolls crown, only to discover that there are more ways to be a woman than they ever realized.

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The Morbs

by Jen Diamond

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
mystery/thriller,
science fiction

Three best best BEST friends from college get stuck in a cabin during an outbreak of a terrifying illness known as The Morbs. Good thing they know each other better than anyone... Right? A comedy-thriller about friendship, cold soup, and the people we become.

Three best best BEST friends from college get stuck in a cabin during an outbreak of a terrifying illness known as The Morbs. Good thing they know each other better than anyone... Right? A comedy-thriller about friendship, cold soup, and the people we become.

Someone Buried Polynices

by Jen Diamond

Cast Size
5
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
drama

The war in Thebes is over and death and destruction abound. Hoplite Sethos has big dreams for the future but his friend Icky, grieving the loss of his mentor and lover, vows never to dance again, which is really harshing the vibe. And now, on top of everything else, the two friends have to figure out who the heck buried the traitor Polynices?!? An inventive, exuberant adaptation of Antigone, this comedy weighs...

The war in Thebes is over and death and destruction abound. Hoplite Sethos has big dreams for the future but his friend Icky, grieving the loss of his mentor and lover, vows never to dance again, which is really harshing the vibe. And now, on top of everything else, the two friends have to figure out who the heck buried the traitor Polynices?!? An inventive, exuberant adaptation of Antigone, this comedy weighs the everyday joys against the heartbreaking mysteries of the universe.

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The Edge of the Water (10 minutes)

by Jen Diamond

3
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Three girls pass a few hours by the lake. It's getting darker. They haven't seen each other in a long while, but they're still best friends. Nothing has changed at all.

Three girls pass a few hours by the lake. It's getting darker. They haven't seen each other in a long while, but they're still best friends. Nothing has changed at all.

The Bad Guy

by Jen Diamond

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
adaptation,
dark comedy,
horror,
mystery/thriller,
tragedy

When Finn and Deirdre inherit Finn's childhood home they move in, hoping to repair their marriage and get a fresh start on life. But the woods are far deeper and darker than Finn remembers and his half-sister has become a stranger. This modern, folk-horror adaptation of The Bacchae is about all the ways we are capable of transforming ourselves and those we love.

When Finn and Deirdre inherit Finn's childhood home they move in, hoping to repair their marriage and get a fresh start on life. But the woods are far deeper and darker than Finn remembers and his half-sister has become a stranger. This modern, folk-horror adaptation of The Bacchae is about all the ways we are capable of transforming ourselves and those we love.

Porn: A Love Story

by Jen Diamond

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

After years of scrubbing the internet clean of humanity’s most vile fantasies, a nihilistic content moderator must convince herself there’s still enough optimism and good in her self to deserve the love of her new coworker.

After years of scrubbing the internet clean of humanity’s most vile fantasies, a nihilistic content moderator must convince herself there’s still enough optimism and good in her self to deserve the love of her new coworker.

The Alibi Play

by Jen Diamond

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
experimental

Comedy duo OLGA is super psyched to perform for you a brand new night of stand up comedy!!!

Well, they would be psyched – except Jen’s boyfriend just broke up with her in a frozen yogurt shop. And Pam is unemployed and unable to buy a Bitcoin. And something really, really bad happened just a few hours ago and it might just change both of their lives forever.

Half stand up, half theatre, The Alibi Play is a...

Comedy duo OLGA is super psyched to perform for you a brand new night of stand up comedy!!!

Well, they would be psyched – except Jen’s boyfriend just broke up with her in a frozen yogurt shop. And Pam is unemployed and unable to buy a Bitcoin. And something really, really bad happened just a few hours ago and it might just change both of their lives forever.

Half stand up, half theatre, The Alibi Play is a comedy that kaleidoscopes reality, fantasy, and friendship to figure out what it means to be a truly Good Person.

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Here We Are

by Jen Diamond

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fantasy

Amelia was the first female pilot to fly around the world. She's also dead. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the Underworld, forced by Death to journey back in her memories to reconstruct her life and the men who tried to define her legacy.

Amelia was the first female pilot to fly around the world. She's also dead. When she wakes up, she finds herself in the Underworld, forced by Death to journey back in her memories to reconstruct her life and the men who tried to define her legacy.

Pretty Like Normal

by Jen Diamond

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama

Melissa and Laura are watching porn for the first time. Melissa's into it. Laura is not. Pizza Crust the dog likes to sleep.

This joyful love letter to pubescent female friendship – in all of its awkwardness, strangeness, and excitingness – is told through the tilting, lilting 'likes' and 'ums' of teenagers' language as the girls wonder about their present day and prophesize about their futures.

Melissa and Laura are watching porn for the first time. Melissa's into it. Laura is not. Pizza Crust the dog likes to sleep.

This joyful love letter to pubescent female friendship – in all of its awkwardness, strangeness, and excitingness – is told through the tilting, lilting 'likes' and 'ums' of teenagers' language as the girls wonder about their present day and prophesize about their futures.

This Is How Ghosts Speak (10 minutes)

by Jen Diamond

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
immersive

The power is out, and Theatre33 is definitely haunted. Presented in black out with actors using flashlights, THIS IS HOW GHOSTS SPEAK is a ghost story, following three theatre workers navigating the darkness and stumbling into moments of vulnerability and literal magic.

The power is out, and Theatre33 is definitely haunted. Presented in black out with actors using flashlights, THIS IS HOW GHOSTS SPEAK is a ghost story, following three theatre workers navigating the darkness and stumbling into moments of vulnerability and literal magic.