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 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, published in "Great Short Plays" (Playscripts.com) and "Best Short American Plays 2007-2008" (Applause); Come Rain or Come Shine in "Best Short American Plays 2005-2006"; and Throw of the Moon and American Eyes, (commissioned and produced by Gorilla Rep) in "Plays and Playwrights 2001" edited by Martin Denton. 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. Running in Circles Screaming has been selected for "Best Short American Plays 2006-2007" (Applause)
Jeni is the recipient of an Independent Artists Challenge Grant from Field and a Woolrich Postgraduate Fellowship from Columbia University. Excerpts from her plays can be found in numerous monologue and scene books. Beyond the theater, she has contributed stories about everything from musical ducks to jogging dogs to 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.