Jerry Polner
Jerry Polner’s Like Money in the Bank, a romantic comedy about the founding of the Federal Reserve System, was produced at the Theatre Row Studio Theatre in New York. Quit the Road, Jack, a comedy about the North American Free Trade Agreement, was a guest production of TheaterLab the previous year. More recently, Jerry’s play Works for Me was chosen as an alternate for the William Inge Theater Festival and...
Jerry Polner’s Like Money in the Bank, a romantic comedy about the founding of the Federal Reserve System, was produced at the Theatre Row Studio Theatre in New York. Quit the Road, Jack, a comedy about the North American Free Trade Agreement, was a guest production of TheaterLab the previous year. More recently, Jerry’s play Works for Me was chosen as an alternate for the William Inge Theater Festival and his play She Started It was a finalist for the Julie Harris Playwriting Competition. His earlier play Fix Number Six was presented by the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity and was nominated for six Planet Connections awards including Outstanding Playwriting for a New Script. Jerry's short play There Is No Other Path was presented at the Secret Theatre One-Act Festival in 2020. His earlier short plays Florence Farewell, Gone With The Masha, Thank You For Applying, and Saute Your Face were produced by the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective at the Manhattan Theatre Source, the Brecht Forum, and Galapogos Artspace. He has also contributed short plays to each of the first nine seasons of New York Madness. Included in his other full-length plays are Half Baked, produced by the Story People, Man Overboard, produced by High Five Productions, and the comedy revues National Lunch and What’s So Funny (co-author) presented by Brooklyn Playworks and Manhattan Punch Line Theatre respectively. Jerry’s plays have been published by Concord Theatricals, Next Stage Press, and Smith & Kraus. He is a company member of New York Madness and a member of the Dramatists Guild and the National Writers Union.