Jeni Mahoney is a playwright, teacher and producer. She is Head of the Playwriting Program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School at New York University's Tisch School for the Arts; the co-Artistic Director of id Theatre Company; and founding Artistic Director of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference which has developed more than 82 new plays since its inception in 2001 and is featured in Michael Wright's 2005 book “Playwriting: At Work and Play.”
Jeni's plays including The Feast of the Flying Cow… and Other Stories of War, Come Rain or Come Shine, Running in Circles Screaming, The Martyrdom of Washington Booth, Mercy Falls, American Eyes and Light have been presented at the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center, InterAct Theater (Philadelphia), Greenwich Playhouse (London), Denver's Old Vic, L.A. Theater Center, MidWest New Play Festival (Chicago), Lark Theater's Playwrights Week, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, NYU's hotINK Festival, Village Rep and Chicago Womens Theater Alliance among others.
Published plays include Light, Running in Circles Screaming, Come Rain or Come Shine, Throw of the Moon (written with Ben Sahl) and American Eyes. She was commissioned by the OBIE-Award winning Mint Theater to adapt Margaret Ayer Barnes' dramatization of The Age of Innocence, and her feature-length screenplay Family Belongings was produced by Stella Productions in 2005.
Jeni is the recipient of an Independent Artists Challenge Grant from Field and a Woolrich Postgraduate Fellowship from Columbia University. She twice served as a panelist for the Dramatists Guild popular "Art of the Synopsis" seminar and was recenlty guest artist/mentor for the Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwriting Festival at Ohio University, and featured writer for the NY Madness at 13th Street Rep.
Beyond the theater, she has written stories about everything from musical ducks to jogging dogs for children's text books and successfully lobbied editors at Newsweek, the New York Times, Dramatists Magazine & the Loop to allow her to inflict her opinion on their readers. Jeni's keeps a blog (http://thelandofnoa.blogspot.com/) about her special needs (and all around special) daughter Noa.
Jeni is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.