Jamie Greenblatt

Jamie Greenblatt

Jamie Greenblatt is a playwright whose work often integrates music, movement and puppetry. She has a BA in Theatre Arts from Oberlin College and is a member of Play Cafe, Theatre Bay Area and The Dramatists Guild of America. Her full length plays “My Recollect Time” and “Female, Ashkenazi with a Sewing Machine” (Semi-Finalist in the Jewish Plays Project’s 13th Jewish Playwriting Contest) were produced by...
Jamie Greenblatt is a playwright whose work often integrates music, movement and puppetry. She has a BA in Theatre Arts from Oberlin College and is a member of Play Cafe, Theatre Bay Area and The Dramatists Guild of America. Her full length plays “My Recollect Time” and “Female, Ashkenazi with a Sewing Machine” (Semi-Finalist in the Jewish Plays Project’s 13th Jewish Playwriting Contest) were produced by Inferno Theatre in Berkeley, California. Some of her other full length plays include: “Contradance” (performed at the Eighth Street Studio in Berkeley), “Elijah's Hope” (Honorable Mention in Stage 3 Theatre Company's ninth annual Festival of New Plays) and “Captain Nemo” (a top finalist in Wily West Productions' New Play Festival 2011). A monologue from "My Recollect Time" was published in Smith & Kraus’ WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters Anthology, 2022. She is a Finalist, Playwrights Foundation's Resident Playwright Program 2024-2025.

Plays

  • Pigeon Project by Jamie Greenblatt
    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: Drug War, teens + 7 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, tragedy
    Keyword: Drug War, teens, BIPOC cast, aerialists, pigeon, Berkeley, 1980s, African American, puppet
    The full-length play, PIGEON PROJECT, has a predominantly African American cast of six and conveys its story with music, puppetry and aerial dance. Grieving twelve-year-old Bernard has moved to South Berkeley in 1980 after his mother is killed in San Francisco’s drug wars. Coming upon fifteen-year-old Ronald training a trick pigeon in a South Berkeley park opens his eyes to a new world. He’s warmly welcomed...
    The full-length play, PIGEON PROJECT, has a predominantly African American cast of six and conveys its story with music, puppetry and aerial dance. Grieving twelve-year-old Bernard has moved to South Berkeley in 1980 after his mother is killed in San Francisco’s drug wars. Coming upon fifteen-year-old Ronald training a trick pigeon in a South Berkeley park opens his eyes to a new world. He’s warmly welcomed by a community of African American youngsters who have agency through raising and training pigeons. But everything changes when crack cocaine comes to South Berkeley. Will tending to their pigeons keep Bernard and his friends safe?
  • FRANKIE AND FRANCIS by Jamie Greenblatt
    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: drama, movement/physical
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    Keyword: Sir Francis Drake, Renaissance faire + 5 more
    Genre: drama, movement/physical
    Keyword: Sir Francis Drake, Renaissance faire, San Francisco Bay Area, Tenderloin District, 1970s, migraine, disability
    FRANKIE & FRANCIS is a full-length play set in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s. Eleven-year-old Frankie, conceived at a Renaissance Faire during the Summer of Love, is the rare child of the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood where she lives in a single room occupancy hotel with her invalid mother. Facing eviction, and with her mother bed ridden, Frankie looks for a solution in her sleeping fort of...
    FRANKIE & FRANCIS is a full-length play set in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s. Eleven-year-old Frankie, conceived at a Renaissance Faire during the Summer of Love, is the rare child of the gritty Tenderloin neighborhood where she lives in a single room occupancy hotel with her invalid mother. Facing eviction, and with her mother bed ridden, Frankie looks for a solution in her sleeping fort of books. Discovering that the Golden Hinde, a replica of Sir Francis Drakes’ ship, has come to San Francisco changes everything.
  • Female, Ashkenazi With A Sewing Machine by Jamie Greenblatt
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, movement/physical
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    Keyword: cancer, Ovarian Cancer + 6 more
    Genre: drama, movement/physical
    Keyword: cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Jewish, adoption, sewing, tikkun olam, Jewish heritage, BRCA gene mutation
    In “Female, Ashkenazi with a Sewing Machine,” the diagnosis of ovarian cancer propels adoptee Anna on a journey, with her sewing machine, to find her deepest roots. It’s a non-linear, dimension defying journey, as she walks along the horizon, acutely aware of death on the other side, aided and challenged by the shape shifting Ashkenazi Foundress. Along the way, she collides with her genetic mutation, stumbles...
    In “Female, Ashkenazi with a Sewing Machine,” the diagnosis of ovarian cancer propels adoptee Anna on a journey, with her sewing machine, to find her deepest roots. It’s a non-linear, dimension defying journey, as she walks along the horizon, acutely aware of death on the other side, aided and challenged by the shape shifting Ashkenazi Foundress. Along the way, she collides with her genetic mutation, stumbles into chapters of Ashkenazi history, with indigo, her favorite color, ever present, taking her home.
  • My Recollect Time by Jamie Greenblatt
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 1 more
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    Keyword: Mary Fields, Mother Amadeus Dunne + 7 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama
    Keyword: Mary Fields, Mother Amadeus Dunne, Sisters Ursuline, bipoc, Stagecoach Mary, emancipation, State of Montana, missions, Nuns
    “My Recollect Time” tells the inspiring story of historical figure Mary Fields, a former slave, and the transformations she undergoes as she struggles to live a free and authentic life after Emancipation. Her life journey takes her from Tennessee to Montana via the Mississippi as a riverman (she passed as a man), and includes her close friendship with the charismatic Ursuline nun, Mother Amadeus.