Jeni Mahoney is a playwright, teacher and producer. She is the co-Artistic Director of id Theatre Company and the founding Artistic Director of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference which has developed more than 60 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 , 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 Productions, NYU's hotINK Festival, Village Rep and Chicago Womens Theater Alliance among others.

Her one-acts Throw of the Moon and American Eyes, commissioned and produced by Gorilla Rep, can be found in "Plays and Playwrights 2001" edited by Martin Denton and have been performed as far a field as Wagga-Wagga, Australia. 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. 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 teaches playwriting in New York University 's Tisch School of the Arts BFA program through Playwrights Horizons Theater School .

Jeni is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.