Playwright and poet Jennifer O'Grady's plays have been produced across the U.S. as well as Europe and Australia. Her full-length plays include CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS (2020 Rising Artist Award; Henley Rose Award; NEWvember Festival Dublin; O'Neill Semifinalist and other honors); PARANORMAL LOVE (MTWorks Newborn Festival; NEWvember Finalist; Pandora's Box Honorable Mention; SWTP Semifinalist): JUGGLING WITH MR FIELDS (SWTP Finalist); ELLERY (a Bechdel Group selection) and others. Her ten-minute plays have won audience-choice awards and are included in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021, 2017 and 2016 (Smith and Kraus); The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021 and 2019 (Applause); Stage It 3: Twenty Ten-Minute Plays and other anthologies. Her work is also published in Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35, The Best Women's Stage Monologues, The PlayGround Experiment's Faces of America Monologue Anthology, The Covid Monologues (Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble), some scripts, Feels Blind Literary and other publications. Her plays have been presented by The Irish Rep, 6th Street Playhouse, Short+Sweet, Rover Dramawerks, Gi60, Heartland Theatre Company, The Hive Collaborative, Brave New World Rep, Attic Salt Theatre Company, Stage Left, Saw It Here First Productions, AboutFace Ireland, The Rum Diaries Presents, Primal Theatre, Theatre Three, The Barrow Group and many other theaters.

She is also an award-winning poet and author of the poetry books WHITE (Mid-List First Series Award for Poetry) and EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS (MadHat Press). Her poems appear in numerous places including Harper’s, The New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily 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, where she won awards for her writing, and lives with her husband, son and daughter just outside New York City. Member: Dramatists Guild; ICWP; 365 Women a Year; Honor Roll! Playwrights, an advocacy/action group of women playwrights over 40. (www.jenniferogrady.net)