JENNIFER
MAISEL'S plays have been
hailed as “inventive and sophisticated” and “human
and eternal” with a “formidable flair for the mysterious”.
She and Wendy McClellan won the 2006 Women Working With Women Collaboration
Award from the NY Coalition of Women in the Arts and Media for BIRDS,
which was workshopped with First Look Theatre company in February and
will be produced by Rorschach Theatre in Washington, D.C. in July. Her
GOODY FUCKING TWO SHOES, a Heideman Award finalist, was produced in
the 29th Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Jennifer received
both the Charlotte Woolard award for Extraordinary New Voice in American
theatre and the Fund for New American Plays award from the Kennedy Center
for THE LAST SEDER, which was produced by Chicago's Organic Theater
and Theatre J in Washington, DC, and published by University of Texas
Press. Jennifer's work includes MAD LOVE, MALLBABY DARK HOURS, EDEN,
BIRDS, and ...AND THE TWO ROMEOS. Her work has been developed and produced
through Theatre of NOTE, The Wilton Project, The Magic Theatre, Playwrights
Theatre of N.J., Rattlestick Theatre’s Exposure Festival, A.S.K.
Spring Writers Retreat, Playlabs, and has won South Coast Repertory’s
California Playwrights competition, the Center Theatre International
Playwrights Competition, the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Fund for
New American Plays and finalist status for the PEN West Literary Award
and the Abingdon Theatre’s Christopher Brian Wolk Award. Her one
act plays include SOAR, FISSSHHHH, ANIMAL DREAMS, IMPENETRABLE, STORYTELLER,
SEEN AND NOT SEEN and HOW I LEARNED TO SPELL. She is a member of DogEar
(dogear.org), Playwrights Ink, the Dramatists Guild and the WGA. Jennifer
attended Cornell University and received her MFA in Dramatic Writing
from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
THERE
OR HERE
A hotel room
in a third world country. A jetlagged American couple. Tomorrow they
will meet the woman who will have her egg and his sperm implanted inside
her to have their baby. Tonight they won’t have sex even though
they want to. Connected by the tenuous threads of time zones and technology,
outsourced computer technicians, fast food order takers and phone sex
operators - faceless voices in another country - have become the refuge
Robyn and Ajay can’t be for each other.
