Jacquelyn Reingold
Jacquelyn writes for theatre and television. Her new play "Kiss Me Somewhere Else" was read in the Theater555 series, NYC, with actors Caroline Aaron, Richard Kind, Gregg Mozgala, and Alison Pill, directed by Melia Bensussen, Artistic Director, Hartford Stage. She is currently finishing a two character play, an EST/Sloan Foundation commission. Her newest one-act "Like Miriam" had an online...
Jacquelyn writes for theatre and television. Her new play "Kiss Me Somewhere Else" was read in the Theater555 series, NYC, with actors Caroline Aaron, Richard Kind, Gregg Mozgala, and Alison Pill, directed by Melia Bensussen, Artistic Director, Hartford Stage. She is currently finishing a two character play, an EST/Sloan Foundation commission. Her newest one-act "Like Miriam" had an online reading with the Axial Theater, NY, and with NYC's Barrow Group's First Fridays. 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, and Hong Kong. Four of her short plays have been recorded for radio/podcasts by Playing On Air. For television, Jackie was a Writer/Executive Producer for Paramount+'s critically acclaimed "The Good Fight." Other TV writing includes 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: New York Foundation for the Arts grant, two EST/Sloan Foundation commissions, the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays Award, New Dramatists' Whitfield Cook Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize, the Greenwall Foundation's Oscar Reubhausen Commission, plus MacDowell and 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 Forward to Applause Books' "10 Minute Plays by Women+ over 40" and "100 Monologues by Women+ over 40." Jackie has taught dramatic writing at NYU, SUNY Stonybrook-Manhattan, Columbia, Fordham, and Ohio University. She has a Playwriting MFA from Ohio University.