Jacquelyn writes for theatre and television. Her play "Fear Less" was recently read in EST/Sloan Foundation First Light Festival. Her play "Kiss Me Somewhere Else" was read in the Theater555 series, NYC, with actors Caroline Aaron, Richard Kind, Gregg Mozgala, Alison Pill, directed by Melia Bensussen. Jackie received a 2023 Lilly Award as a playwright and advocate. She did the 24 Hour Plays Broadway 2023, writing for actors: Nadia Dajani, Seth Gilliam, David Krumholtz, Alison Pill, T.R. Knight. Her newest one-act "Like Miriam" was part of Ensemble Studio Theater's Happy Hour, and will be in Axial Theater's 2024 "Best of Cactus Flowers." Other plays, which include "String Fever," (starring Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler), "I Know," "They Float Up," "Up and Down," "A Story About a Girl,"...
Jacquelyn writes for theatre and television. Her play "Fear Less" was recently read in EST/Sloan Foundation First Light Festival. Her play "Kiss Me Somewhere Else" was read in the Theater555 series, NYC, with actors Caroline Aaron, Richard Kind, Gregg Mozgala, Alison Pill, directed by Melia Bensussen. Jackie received a 2023 Lilly Award as a playwright and advocate. She did the 24 Hour Plays Broadway 2023, writing for actors: Nadia Dajani, Seth Gilliam, David Krumholtz, Alison Pill, T.R. Knight. Her newest one-act "Like Miriam" was part of Ensemble Studio Theater's Happy Hour, and will be in Axial Theater's 2024 "Best of Cactus Flowers." Other plays, which include "String Fever," (starring Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler), "I Know," "They Float Up," "Up and Down," "A Story About a Girl," "Girl Gone," "A Very Very Short Play," and "Dear Kenneth Blake" have been seen in New York at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, Theatre for One, the MCC Theatre; at the Actors Theatre of Louisville; Theatre J in Washington DC; Portland Center Stage in Oregon; PlayLabs in Minneapolis; and in London, Dublin, Belgrade, Berlin, Taiwan, Peru, and Hong Kong. Four of her short plays have been recorded for radio/podcast by Playing On Air. For television, Jackie was a Writer/Executive Producer for Paramount+'s critically acclaimed "The Good Fight." Other TV writing includes a pilot for John Wells, CBS' "East New York," "BrainDead," Netflix's "Grace and Frankie," "Smash," and all the "Mia" episodes for Emmy nominated Gabriel Byrne and Hope Davis for HBO’s "In Treatment." Playwriting honors and awards include: the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays, New York Foundation for the Arts, two EST/Sloan Foundation commissions, New Dramatists' Whitfield Cook Award, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Greenwall Foundation's Oscar Reubhausen Commission, plus Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross, & Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowships. Her work has been published in two "Women Playwrights: The Best Plays," several "Best American Short Plays," various "Best Monologues," and by Samuel French, Vintage Books, and Smith & Kraus. A collection of her one-acts "Things Between Us," is published by DPS. Jacquelyn is an alum of New Dramatists, a member of Ensemble Studio Theater, and a founding member of "Honor Roll!" an advocacy group for women+ playwrights over 40, whose goal is inclusion in the theater. She wrote the Preface to "10 Minute Plays by Women+ over 40" and "100 Monologues by Women+ over 40." She has taught dramatic writing at NYU, SUNY Stonybrook-Manhattan, Columbia University, Ohio University, and is a frequent guest artist/teacher. She is currently a mentor for Young Playwrights Ukraine.