Fedna Jacquet

Fedna Jacquet

*Education MFA: NYU Tisch BA: Brown University

*AWARDS National Black Theatre Playwright Resident 2020-2022, Huntington Theatre Fellowship (2019-21), Eugene O'Neill Semifinalist 2021, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting (2019) ABFF/TVOne Screenplay Competition (2018) DVRF Finalist (2018) Playwright’s Realm Finalist (2017) Brienin Bryant Scholarship Finalist (2016...
*Education MFA: NYU Tisch BA: Brown University

*AWARDS National Black Theatre Playwright Resident 2020-2022, Huntington Theatre Fellowship (2019-21), Eugene O'Neill Semifinalist 2021, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting (2019) ABFF/TVOne Screenplay Competition (2018) DVRF Finalist (2018) Playwright’s Realm Finalist (2017) Brienin Bryant Scholarship Finalist (2016) Sidney Frank Scholar (2006-2010)

Full-time writer and actor Fedna Jacquet was born in Boston to Haitian parents. She is a 2020-2022 National Black Theatre Playwright in Residence, 2019-2021 Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellow, and a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Written work for the screen includes Isaiah (ABFF/TVOne Screenplay Competition Finalist, Homebase (Juilliard/NYU Showcase)), Inheritance (2020 Tribeca Chanel Through Her Lens Finalist), Circus (2020 HollyShorts Quarterfinalist) and Going Home. She is also currently working on two pilots: Model Minority (a half hour dramedy centered around an Asian American male lead) and Pefeksyon (a half hour comedy centered around a Haitian American family). Written plays include Black Mother Lost Daughter (Commissioned by National Black Theatre), Pefeksyon (Playwright’s Realm Finalist, DVRF Finalist, Studio Tisch), Inheritance (Classical Theatre of Harlem Playwright's Playground, Studio Tisch), Civic Duty (Commissioned by Suny Purchase), Gurlfriend (The Fire This Time Festival, Eugene O'Neill Semifinalist) and Heroes (Developed as a Huntington Fellow). Fedna is currently recurring as an actor on City On A Hill (Showtime) and FBI: Most Wanted (CBS) She has appeared on The Equalizer, New Amsterdam, Law & Order SVU, The Blacklist, and many others. BA: Brown University MFA: NYU/Tisch Grad Acting.

Plays

  • Pefeksyon (Perfection) by Fedna Jacquet
    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: family, Haitian
    Genre: comedy, drama, farce, tragedy
    Keyword: family, Haitian
    The Toussaints are your typical American family. Or as typical as a middle class, Haitian, New England family can be. Maybe they aren’t typical at all. Long-buried secrets and frustrations come to light when they all gather to celebrate the eldest’s third degree from Harvard. They all are gathered, but is it for a celebration or something else? Something unspeakable?
  • Girlfriend by Fedna Jacquet
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: black, urban + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, melodrama, political, romantic comedy
    Keyword: black, urban, drama, lit, blackgirlmagic
    Two black girls in a room living their best lives. #BlackGurlMagic #UnapologeticAF We get to see THEM-jokes and bruises on display. By leaving the world outside, these best friends are able to bond in a fresh and delightful way...but what happens when their shared language is misinterpreted by one? We ride the bold and excruciatingly confusing rollercoaster of love and friendship to a new destination unknown to both Lea and Tonya. #Drama
  • Heroes by Fedna Jacquet
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 11 more
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    Keyword: science, virus + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, horror, melodrama, mystery/thriller, period, political, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: science, virus, coronavirus, pandemic, black, asian, female scientist, essential workers
    Heroes is a play set in 2005. Most of the scientific research focuses on outbreaks of coronaviruses and filoviruses, specifically SARS-CoV and Marburg. The plot centers around American virologists who are tasked with the mapping of several bat pathogens. Each scientist is able to shed some light on to why they chose their field of study, which allows the play to dive into other important scientific and...
    Heroes is a play set in 2005. Most of the scientific research focuses on outbreaks of coronaviruses and filoviruses, specifically SARS-CoV and Marburg. The plot centers around American virologists who are tasked with the mapping of several bat pathogens. Each scientist is able to shed some light on to why they chose their field of study, which allows the play to dive into other important scientific and medical topics such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, childhood bacterial pneumonia, the taboo truths of women’s bodies post-birth, and the importance of proper biosecurity lab procedures.
  • Inheritance (Talks With My Father) by Fedna Jacquet
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 1 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    In order to follow their ailing father’s wishes, Inheritance follows three siblings as they travel from their comfortable lives in The States to their long abandoned childhood home in Haiti. Once there, they are drawn into a game of remembering the past that explodes into a deadly confrontation with the secrets they thought were long hidden in the ground. The spiritual land of Haiti becomes a fertile ground and...
    In order to follow their ailing father’s wishes, Inheritance follows three siblings as they travel from their comfortable lives in The States to their long abandoned childhood home in Haiti. Once there, they are drawn into a game of remembering the past that explodes into a deadly confrontation with the secrets they thought were long hidden in the ground. The spiritual land of Haiti becomes a fertile ground and living conduit to the wretched past as well as the ignorant present. We watch five characters fight to reach a future, but not all survive.
  • Black Mother Lost Daughter (or BMLD for short) by Fedna Jacquet
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: say her name, women + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: say her name, women, Black women, black mothers, mothers, daughters, black daughters
    A play about a mother who lost a daughter and is in the process of losing another one.