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Now Playing: My First Time
"Great ensemble and put together beautifully, My First Time will make you want to vote and to hope for better outcomes." — MNN-TV
Part of the Voting Writes Project at Luna Stage. Watch HERE.

recording "The International Local"
"Wondrous!" — NY Times
The International Local: 7 by Jenny Lyn Bader, directed by Erin Mee, is available on the app Subway Plays - click here to download:
Coming Soon: Guru of Touch

After its virtual premiere at Edinburgh Fringe, the short play (22 min.) had an extended run @TheSpaceUK's youtube channel. "A charming play with an excellent script and great performances. Go on — join the healing circle!"—British Theatre Guide It will soon be available again from This Is Not a Theatre Co.
Meanwhile you can watch the promo trailer here:
CEO is a winner of Urban Stages' Acronym Plays. A short comedy (10 min.) about losing and finding one's voice.
Returning soon: Play in Your Bathtub: An Immersive Audio Spa for Social Distancing
Free of charge and only half an hour, it's a play you can experience in your own tub —or a bowl of water will do — and provides an intermission from all the pandemic drama. It's been featured in "best live theatre to livestream"/TimeOut, streamed in bathtubs in 30 countries, and translated into Russian and Spanish. Created by This is Not a Theatre Company, Jenny Lyn is one of the co-authors.
Feb-March 2020:
EQUALLY DIVINE at the Theatre at the 14th St. Y
Due to pandemic, the last two performances of this run have been postponed until further notice. If you had tickets they will be refunded or rescheduled. The United Solo Festival/London performance that was supposed to happen in September has been cancelled. Watch this space for updates; meanwhlie, click on the photo to learn more about Equally Divine.
You can read about this League of Professional Theatre Women panel here.

BIO
Jenny Lyn Bader's plays include Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library (Luna Stage); In Flight (NAAA Award Winner, London), premiered by Turn to Flesh Productions in New York; None of the Above (Lion Theatre), which former Outer Critics Circle President Marjorie Gunner called "easily the best play of the season," and was originally produced by New Georges; and Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage), also staged at Guild Hall (w/ Mercedes Ruehl). Her work has also been produced at the Brooklyn Museum, Humana Festival of New American Plays, and NY Int'l Fringe Festival ("Best of the Fringe" selection).
At the United Solo Festival 2019, she won the Best Documentary One-Woman Show Award. At the O'Neill Playwrights Center she received the Edith Oliver Award for the playwright who, in the spirit of the late New Yorker critic, has "a caustic wit that deflates the ego but does not unduly damage the human spirit." She is also the recipient of the Randall Wreghitt Award, a Lark Playwriting Fellowship, and an Athena Theatre Playwriting Fellowship. Her plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service, Vintage, Applause, and Smith & Kraus, where twelve of her one-acts appear in the annual Best 10-Minute Play series.
She wrote both seasons of the internet drama Watercooler (MSN) and has written scripts for Warner Brothers, NBC, and HBO, where she developed a pilot with Billy Crystal. Her essays appear in Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation (Norton) and other anthologies. A Harvard graduate, she was a frequent contributor to The New York Times "Week in Review."
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