Jeni Mahoney

The Feast of the Flying Cow… And Other Stories of War

• World Premiere: InterAct Theater (Philadelphia, PA)
• Rocky Mountain Premiere: And Toto Too Theater Company at the Old Vic (Denver, CO)
• National Playwrights Conference , Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT)
• Nominated for Humana Festival for New Plays , Actors Theater of Louisville (KY)
• Rattlestick Productions - ExposureNY Festival (New York, NY)
• The Lark Theater Company , Playwrights Week (New York, NY)
• Annual Midwestern New Play Festival , Prop Theater Company (Chicago, IL)
• Excerpted in: Best Stage Monologues for Men 1999 (Smith & Krause)
• Staged reading: id Theatre's NYC Sit-In! Series, New York Play Development at the Vital Theater (New York, NY), Rattlestick Theater, (New York, NY), FatChance Productions (New York, NY)

Light

• Moving Arts One Act Play Festival , LA Theater Center (Los Angles)
• Laurie Beechman Theater , Westside Café Theater (New York, NY)
• Aegean Theater Company , New Plays Festival (New York, NY)
• Staged Reading - CCNY New PlayFest (New York, NY)

The Martyrdom of Washington Booth

• Staged Reading - New York University's hotINK Festival (New York, NY)
• Staged Reading - Rattlestick Productions - Two on Tuesday Series (New York, NY)
• Finalist, National Playwrights Conference (Waterford, CT) 1999 and 2000
• Excerpted in: Best Stage Monologues for Men 1999 (Smith & Krause)
• Readings: Echo Writers Lab (Los Angeles), Quickly Bones Artists Collective (NY)

Throw of the Moon (written with Ben Sahl)

• Commissioned & performed by GorillaRep for Washington Square Dreams (New York, NY)
• Staged Reading - 13 th Street Rep (New York, NY)
• Published in Plays & Playwrights 2001 (NY Experience)

American Eyes

• Commissioned & performed by GorillaRep for Washington Square Dreams (New York, NY)
• Staged Reading - 13 th Street Rep (New York, NY)
• Published in Plays & Playwrights 2001 (NY Experience)

Mercy Falls

• Aegean Theater Company , 30 th Street Theater (NYC)
• Workshop - presented as a benefit for id Theatre Company , Rattlestick Theater
• Staged Reading - Expanded Arts (New York)
• Excerpted in: Best Stage Scenes 1999 (Smith & Kraus)
• Excerpted in: Best Stage Monologues for Women, 1999 (Smith & Kraus)

Bad Water Juju

• Workshop – Juggernaut Company (New York, NY)
• Staged reading - Village Repertory Theater (New York, NY)

Family Belongs (with Susan diRende)

• Stella Productions, 2003

HONORS & ASSOCIATIONS

• Artistic Director, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
• Fellow, National Playwrights Conference - 1997
• Finalist, National Playwrights Conference - 2000 & 2001
• Woolrich Postgraduate Writing Fellow – Columbia University, 1999-2001
• Independent Artist Challenge Grant – The Field, 1996
• Runner-up, Bug n' Bub Award, Primary Stages, 1997
• Echo Writers Lab/Echo Theater Lab, 2003
• Playwrights Lab, Rattlestick Productions, 2000-2002
• New York Play Development Lab, 1999-2000
• Expanded Arts Playwrights Group, 1999
• Certified Staged Combatant
• Winner of the Elizabeth Baker Award, Monomoy Theater
• Full Graduate Assistantship, Ohio University
• Member, Dramatists Guild

Playwrights Horizons Theater School / New York University, Tisch School for the Arts

• Playwriting Instructor, BFA Studio School program for NYU Tisch, 2005-present
• Guest Teacher, NYC Creative Writing Project, BFA Studio program for NYU /Tisch, 2007
• Associate Director of Studio School for NYU/Tisch, 1997-1999
• Acting I – First year BFA Acting Class – 2000
• Substitute Acting Instructor – For second and third year Theater Majors – 1997-1999
• Directing Mentor (working one-on-one with third year directing students) – 1997-2002
• Movement for Actors II, Sophomore Theater Majors – 1999-2000

Playwrights Horizons Theater School , Playwrights Program

• Head of Adult Education Playwrights Program, 2001-2002
• Moderator, Emerging Professional Playwrights Workshop, 2002
• Playwriting Instructor (beginning and advanced workshops), 1997-2002

Miscellaneous Teaching Positions

• Spirit Awakening Creative Writing Program, Los Angeles, CA 2002-2003
• Playwriting Instructor, Rattlestick Theater School , 2001
• Writing Instructor, Story Writers Workshop (adult writers in all genres) Fall 2000
• Guest Instructor, Kent Place School (private high school for girls)– Final Acting Presentations, 2000
• Guest Artist, State University of NY-New Paltz Playwrights Intensive at the Actors Institute, 2000
• Substitute Instructor, Playwriting Workshop, Wesleyan University , May 2000
• Screening Judge, National Unified Auditions for Graduate Schools (U/RTA), 1999-2001)
• Mentor , Young Playwrights Festival (playwrights between ages 10-18), 1997
• Guest Artist in Acting & Playwriting, P.S. 8-Brooklyn (2 nd , 4 th and 6 th grades), 1994
• Acting Instructor, Karamu House Summer Fine Arts Program (ages 12-15), Cleveland , OH 1991
• Creative Dramatics, Parmadale School for Girls (ages 15-18), Cleveland , OH , 1991
• Guest Artist, Acting and Playwriting, Cleveland Play House in the Schools, 1990-91
• Acting 101 for majors, Ohio University 1990
• Acting 101 for non-majors, Ohio University, 1989-1990

ARTISTIC/EXECUTIVE POSITIONS

Artistic Director/Founder, Seven Devil's Playwrights Conference ( McCall , Idaho ), 2001-present

Annual Conference that invites writers, actors, director and dramaturgs from around the country to spend two weeks developing and presenting new works in McCall, Idaho. Conference that has developed more than 60 new American plays (27 by Idaho high school students) since 2001. Recipient of grants from the NEA, Idaho Commission on the Arts and A.K. Starr Foundation among others. Program is featured in Michael Wright's 2005 book "Playwriting: At Work and Play." www.sevendevils.org

Freelance Script Consultant, 1996-present

Working with screenwriters, playwrights and fiction writers.

Associate Director, Mint Theater Company, 1999- 2002

Award-winning Off-Broadway Theater Company. Position involved development, marketing, grant-writing and box office responsibilities, as well as artistic and budget issues.

• 2002 Drama Desk Award (for preserving and presenting little-known classics )
• 2001 OBIE Award (for keeping us up to date on a hundred years ago )
• Associate Editor : Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company . (Granville Press)

Associate Director, Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 1997 - 1999

Advised students, worked with New York University staff to ensure that BFA requirements were being met, and scheduled classes for more than 250 students and 45 faculty members. Point person for day-to-day needs, including administrative, technical and staffing issues.

• Instructor: Sophomore Movement (1998), Freshman Acting (2000), Freshman Voice/Movement warm-up (1997-1999), Directing Mentor (1997-2002)

Administrator, University/Resident Theater Association, 1993-1994 & 1997

Ran the Unified Auditions for Graduate Schools in Long Beach , Chicago and New York annually, auditioning more than 1400 students applying to 32 graduate programs. Advised students in terms of various graduate programs, audition and presentational materials, etc…Assisted with URTA's Contract Management Program.

• Preliminary Screening Judge - New York Auditions, 2000 - 2002

Associate Producer/Literary Associate, Music-Theater Group, 1993-95

Assisted Artistic Director. Productions on shows including: “Three of Hearts” with Faith Prince, “You Don't Miss Your Water,” with poet Cornelius Eady, and “Marco Polo” by Tan Dun with Martha Clark among others.

• Audition Arsensal, Women 30's (Smith & Kraus) - two excerpts from MERCY FALLS
• Best Stage Monologues for Women, 1999 (Smith & Kraus) - excerpts from MERCY FALLS and THE FEAST OF THE FLYING COW… AND OTHER STORIES OF WAR.
• Best Stage Monologues for Men, 1999 (Smith & Krause) - excerpts from THE FEAST OF THE FLYING COW… AND OTHER STORIES OF WAR and THE MARTYRDOM OF WASHINGTON BOOTH
• Best Stage Scenes, 1999 (Smith & Kraus), excerpt from MERCY FALLS
• Plays and Playwrights 2001 (New York Theatre Experience), anthology includes: THROW OF THE MOON (co-written with Ben Sahl) and AMERICAN EYES
• Associate Editor, Worthy But Neglected: The Plays of Mint Theatre Company (Granville Press)
• Contribution Author, McGraw Hill Reading Series (numerous), McGraw Hill Publishing
• Scriptwriter (free lance), MacMillan-McGraw Hill Educational Dept., 1991-1992

• Consultant, Akuyoe Graham for the screenplay of her award-winning stage script "Spirit Awakening"
• Dramaturg, "Four Beers" by David Van Vleck, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference 2003
• Dramaturg, "A Little Time in the Fall" by Bernadine Cockey, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2002
• Guest Playwright, State University of New York - New Paltz, Playwrights Intensive at the Actors Institute, 2000 & 2001
• Juror, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, 2000
• Play Reader, Joseph Papp Public Theater, 1995-1998
• Play Reader & Mentor, Young Playwrights Festival, 1995-98

• CRANIUM, Alpine Playhouse, Idaho , 2002
• THE CHI (Fight Director), Kraine Theater, 2001
• IMAGINING BRAD, Aegean Theater Company at the Mint, 2001
• SHOES ARE MADE FOR WALKING, Columbia Dramatists at St. Michael's, 1998
• THE RIVER, Columbia University-MFA Playwright Thesis Presentation at New Dramatists, 1998
• THE FOUR HORSEMEN (Assistant/Fight Director) Tiny Mythic Directing Cabaret/HERE, 1997
• EVERYKID, Karamu House Fine Arts Summer Theater, 1991
• SELF-TORTURE AND STRENEOUS EXERCISE, Saint Mary's College Studio Theater, 1985