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Now Playing: My First Time

Alysia Reiner, karen Eilbacher, Isabel Keating, Jevonnah Mayo, Pauline Chalamet and Giuliana Carr star in My First Time. Dir. Ari Laura Kreith

"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. 

Tina Chen and Xiaozhou Xu
recording "The International Local"
The Subway Plays: Now playing on a device near you...

"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:

 

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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:

Read a script online

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. 

On Medium

What Passover Can Teach Us During a Plague

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. 

LPTW Playwriting panelists Fengar Gael, Lee Hunkins, Maxine Kern, Caridad Svich, Kara Lee Corthron, Dael Orlandersmith, & Jenny Lyn Bader. Photo © Lia Chang

You can read about this League of Professional Theatre Women panel here. 

"A Powerful and Timely Tour de Force!"
—Oleg Sulkin, Voice of America

 

"An intimate, riveting revelation of insight and courage expressed in unexpected ways... providing optimism for the fate of the human race."
—Ruth Ross, NJ Arts Maven 


"In a moment of intense polarization in our own political discourse, the play is more than a history lesson and a drama; it's also a dissertation on how to speak to another person across a seemingly impassable gulf."
—Johanna R. Ginsberg, New Jersey Jewish News

 

"This is a very worthy play and I won't be surprised if it makes the leap to New York City where I think it really does belong... When you go, see if you can guess who Mrs. Stern is.  It's in West Orange New Jersey, which isn't that hard to get to so make it happen!" 
—Peter Filichia, Broadway Radio

Alison Pill in None of the Above (New Georges), originally directed by Julie Kramer at the Ohio Theatre in NYC, now available from Dramatists Play Service
James Kiberd in Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage)
Emmanuelle Chriqui & John Lloyd Young reading Best Friends (W.E.T. Love Benefit), published in Best 10-Minute Plays: 2011.

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." 

If you really want heaps more information about her, visit 

the page of the Endless Bio!

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