Jennifer Maisel

Known for her thought-provoking dramas about the transcendency of human connection and identity, Jennifer Maisel’s plays have been produced nationally and internationally.? The Last Seder premiered Off-Broadway with Gaby Hoffmann and Greg Mullavey after productions around the country and abroad. Before its critically acclaimed world premiere at Antaeus theatre in the fall of 2019, Jennifer developed? Eight Nights?with the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Bay Street Theatre, Playmakers, Moving Arts and Antaeus; that production was nominated for nine coveted Ovation Awards and won for?Best Playwriting.? The play was also part of nationwide fundraiser for HIAS called?8 nights of Eight Nights and sold out its run at Detroit Public Theatre in 2023. ?Her?Out of Orbit was workshopped at the Gulf Shore New Play Festival as well as the Sundance Theatre Lab, and was awarded an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P Sloan rewrite commission for plays about science and technology before making the 2016 Kilroy List and winning both the Stanley Award and the Woodward Newman Award for Drama.? It premiered at Williamston Theatre and Bloomington Playwrights Project in 2018.? Her Pen West Literary finalist There or Here?premiered in New York and London. Her?@thespeedofJake, also a Pen West Literary finalist, premiered in LA with Playwrights’ Arena.?
Jennifer was one of seven playwrights commissioned by Center Theatre Group and Playwrights’ Arena to create?The Hotel Play,?a site-specific work created?in commemoration of the 25th?anniversary of the LA riots. Jennifer was one of five writers in the prestigious Humanitas 2018 PlayLA workshop, where she wrote her play Better and one of ten writers in The Road Theatre’s Under Construction where she wrote Third Person.? In April 2021 she was the Travis Bogard Artist in Residence with a Tao House fellowship, writing a Lucille Lortel Alcove-commissioned play called Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020? on Eugene O’Neill’s former estate, subsequently workshopped at Great Plains Theatre Conference and read by the Neo-Political Cowgirls at their Andromeda’s Sisters event.?Tao House asked Jennifer to return with the play to feature it as part of their 2023 O’Neill festival and the Lortel produced a streamed reading in the winter of 2024. Her most recent play, Provenance, a finalist for the O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference and the Jewish Plays Project, is being workshopped with the Asolo Theatre.
She is a member of the Writers Guild, the Dramatists Guild, the Playwrights Union and Writers’ Odyssey. She also writes for film and television. The screenplay adaptation of her play The Last Seder won Showtime’s Tony Cox Screenwriting Award, meriting her a month’s stay in a haunted farmhouse at the Nantucket Screenwriter’s Colony; it’s currently in?preproduction with Rosalind Productions. A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Dramatic Writing Program, a complete listing of her plays can be found at www.jennifermaisel.com.