Jennifer O'Grady
Playwright and poet Jennifer O'Grady's plays are produced across the U.S. and internationally. Her full-length plays include CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS (Rising Artist Award; 1st Place Henley Rose Award; O'Neill Semifinalist and other honors); PARANORMAL LOVE (MTWorks Newborn Award; NEWvember Finalist; Panndora's Box Honorable Mention, other honors); still small voice (2023 Moxie Incubator...
Playwright and poet Jennifer O'Grady's plays are produced across the U.S. and internationally. Her full-length plays include CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS (Rising Artist Award; 1st Place Henley Rose Award; O'Neill Semifinalist and other honors); PARANORMAL LOVE (MTWorks Newborn Award; NEWvember Finalist; Panndora's Box Honorable Mention, other honors); still small voice (2023 Moxie Incubator Finalist); FERTILE GROUND (2022 Semifinalist: O'Neill Conference, Princess Grace Award/New Dramatists Fellowship and Panndora's Box) and more. Her plays are included in multiple editions of the annual Best Ten-Minute Plays, Best New Ten-Minute Plays and Best Women's Stage Monologues, among other anthologies, and have been presented by The Irish Rep, The Barrow Group, 6th Street Playhouse, The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, Attic Salt Theatre, NEWvember Festival Dublin, Little Fish Theatre, Short + Sweet, Lakeshore Players Theatre, Rover Dramawerks, Weathervane Playhouse, Gi60 and many others. She is also the author of two poetry books, WHITE (Midlist First Series Award for Poetry ) and EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS (MadHat Press). Her poems appear in numerous places including Poetry, Harper's, The New Republic, The Writer's Almanac, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, BBC Radio 4 and American Poetry: The Next Generation. Born and raised in New York City, she earned an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and a BA from Vassar. She and her family live near New York City. (www.jenniferogrady.net)