In addition to being playwright, director, dramaturg, teacher and self-proclaimed new play development geek, Jeni is the Founding Artistic Director of Seven Playwrights Conference which has been instrumental in the development of 200+ new American plays since 2001.
Jeni's plays including Mercy Falls, Fata Morgana, Kandahar, 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, American Eyes, Scatter and Light have been presented at the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center, InterAct Theater, Greenwich Playhouse (London), L.A. Theater Center, the Lark Playwrights Week, Rattlestick, Circus Theatricals, Key City Public Theater, Boston Theater Marathon and Boise Contemporary Theater, among others.
BCT's world premiere of Fata Morgana was awarded a 2015 Artworks Grant by the National Endowment of the Arts, and was recognized with an Honorable Mention on the 2015 Kilroy List. The Feast of the Flying Cow... and Other Stories of War received an Honorable Mention on the Kilroy's 2014 List.
As Producing Artistic Director of Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and Founding Artistic Director of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Jeni has supported the development of over 200 new American plays since 2001. She has also supported the development of new work as director and/or dramaturg at Durango PlayFest, The National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Sit-In NYC and Key City Public Theater's PT PlayFest, which which she also serves as Associate Director.
Currently, Jeni teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program at Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. Other teaching assignments have include Franklin Pierce University, Primary Stages Einhorn Performing Arts School, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and spent 10 years as Head of the undergraduate Playwriting program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU Tisch for School for the Arts.
Jeni is an inductee in the Indie Theater Hall of Fame where she was named one of the 2014 People of the Year. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the National Theatre Conference, where she served on the Board of Trustees for six years.
Jeni's plays including Mercy Falls, Fata Morgana, Kandahar, 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, American Eyes, Scatter and Light have been presented at the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center, InterAct Theater, Greenwich Playhouse (London), L.A. Theater Center, the Lark Playwrights Week, Rattlestick, Circus Theatricals, Key City Public Theater, Boston Theater Marathon and Boise Contemporary Theater, among others.
BCT's world premiere of Fata Morgana was awarded a 2015 Artworks Grant by the National Endowment of the Arts, and was recognized with an Honorable Mention on the 2015 Kilroy List. The Feast of the Flying Cow... and Other Stories of War received an Honorable Mention on the Kilroy's 2014 List.
As Producing Artistic Director of Seven Devils New Play Foundry, and Founding Artistic Director of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Jeni has supported the development of over 200 new American plays since 2001. She has also supported the development of new work as director and/or dramaturg at Durango PlayFest, The National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Sit-In NYC and Key City Public Theater's PT PlayFest, which which she also serves as Associate Director.
Currently, Jeni teaches in the low-residency MFA Creative Writing Program at Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine. Other teaching assignments have include Franklin Pierce University, Primary Stages Einhorn Performing Arts School, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and spent 10 years as Head of the undergraduate Playwriting program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU Tisch for School for the Arts.
Jeni is an inductee in the Indie Theater Hall of Fame where she was named one of the 2014 People of the Year. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the National Theatre Conference, where she served on the Board of Trustees for six years.