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Inducted into the Indie Theater Hall of Fame  *  2014 Person of the Year, IndieTheaterNow.com
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MERCY FALLS
FATA MORGANA
KANDAHAR
  • PT PlayFest, Port Townsend, WA (workshop)
  • National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Creede, CO (reading)
  • Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
  • Semi-finalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference
THE FEAST OF THE FLYING COW... AND OTHER STORIES OF WAR
THE MARTYRDOM OF WASHINGTON BOOTH
  • Key City Public Theater 15th Annual Playwrights Festival (Port Townsend, WA)
  • Workshops & Readings: New York University's hotINK Festival (NY), NYC Sit In! (NY), Rattlestick Productions - Two on Tuesday Series (New York, NY) , Echo Writers Lab (LA)
  • Two-time Finalist, National Playwrights Conference
  • Excerpted in: Best Stage Monologues for Men 1999 (Smith & Kraus)
BAD WATER JUJU
  • Workshop/Staged Reading - Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU Tisch (New York, NY)
  • Workshop – Juggernaut Company (New York, NY)
SORRY ASS BLOCK PARTY (written with Cynthia Arsenault)
RUNNING IN CIRCLES SCREAMING
  • Finalist, 2023 The Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-Minute Plays
  • 2018 Boston Theater Marathon 
  • World Premiere Source Theater Festival, 2007 (Washington, DC)
  • Greenhouse Ensemble Ten Minute Play Soiree (NYC)
  • Lion's Paw Theatre Plays On The Menu, lunchtime playreading series (St. Louis) 
  • Circus Theatricals One-Act Play Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
  • Theater Company of Saugus, Festival of One-Acts (NY)
  • Available in Best Short American Plays 2006-2007 (Applause)
SCATTER
LIGHT
COME RAIN OR COME SHINE
  • University of Puget Sound
  • Available in Best Short American Plays 2005-2006 (Applause)
  • Available in Cengage Learning's Textbook Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing
  • Readings: Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NY), NYC Sit In! (NY), Drama Book Shop (New York)
CHUCK ROAST TOAST​
  • 2016 Boston Theatre Marathon
THROW OF THE MOON and AMERICAN EYES
  • Available in Plays & Playwrights 2001 (NY Experience)
  • Commissioned & performed by GorillaRep for Washington Square Dreams (New York, NY)
  • All the World's a Stage (Civic Theatre -Wagga-Wagga, Australia)
SALTY
  • Finalist, 2009 Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville
  • NYC Sit In! (NY)
DIVERSITY and INCLUSION: A REPORT FOR MRS. ABERNATHY'S 5th GRADE CLASS
  • 2017 Boston Theater Marathon
JUST KEEP GOING (co-written with Jess Foster)
  • 2018 Fresh Ink Mad Dash at the Lyric

One & Two Minute Plays

• THIRD AVENUE - IndieTheatre One-Minute Play Fest at the New Ohio, NY, NY
• CHICKEN WORLD - Boston One-Minute Play Fest/Boston Playwrights Theatre, MA
• SHIMMY – IndieTheatre One-Minute Play Fest at the New Ohio, NY, NY
• THE YA’KNOW – NYC Responds One-Minute Play Fest at the New Ohio, NY, NY
• NEOPHILIA - IndieTheatre One-Minute Play Fest at the New Ohio, NY, NY
• CHUCK ROAST TOAST - IndieTheatre One-Minute Play Fest at the New Ohio, NY, NY
• GOGLI MOGLI - Twenty! FGP’s Festival of Two-Minute Plays, The Brick, NY, NY

Artistic Director / Producing Positions

  • Current: Producing Artistic Director, id Theater/ Seven Devil’s Playwrights Conference
  • Current: Associate Director, PT PlayFest, Key City Public Theater
  • Curator, hotINK Festival of New Plays, New York University
  • Associate Director, Mint Theater Company
  • Special Consultant, National Auditions for Graduate School (U/RTA)
  • Associate Producer, Music-Theater Group, New York

Directing

  • Hold Steady by Tira Palmquist, 2019 PT PlayFest, Key City Public Theater (Port Townsent, WA)
  • Needles and Pins by D.D. Wigley, 2019 Key City Public Theater (Port Townsent, WA)
  • The Dizziness of Freedom, Stephen Nelson with Mike Ferrell and Laura Spence, Durango Playwrights Festival
  • How to Hide Your Monster by Heidi Kraay, National Winter Playwrights Workshop (Creede, CO)
  • War Stories by Richard Dresser for Key City Public Theater's PlayFest 2016 (Port Townsend, WA)
  • Escorting Tom by Duane Kelly for Key City Public Theater's PlayFest 2016 (Port Townsend, WA)
  • Optimism Or... by A.P. Andrews for Key City Public Theater's PlayFest 2015 (Port Townsend, WA)
  • CrazySkinnySmall by Sylvie Mae Baldwin for Key City Public Theater's PlayFest 2015 (Port Townsend, WA)
  • The Garden of Monsters by Mara Lathrop – id’s Sit In NYC! series, Jimmy's No. 43
  • id-IOTS AT PLAY!, id’s Sit In NYC! series at Jimmy’s No. 43
  • Pixels by Kali Boroski - Seven Devils Playwrights Conference at the Alpine Playhouse, Idaho
  • Blue 22 by Whitney Kimball, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference at Alpine Playhouse, Idaho
  • Cranium by Brian Welch, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference at Alpine Playhouse, Idaho
  • Imaging Brad by Peter Hedges, Aegean Theater Company at the Mint Theatre
  • The River by Ron Fitzgerald, Columbia University MFA Playwright Thesis Presentation at New Dramatists, NY
  • Shoe Are Made for Walking by Ben Sahl - Columbia Dramatists at St. Michael's
  • The Four Horsemen by Greg Paul (Assistant/Fight Director), Tiny Mythic Directing Cabaret/HERE

Dramaturgy, Literary Management

  • Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W. Gregory
  • The Making of a Modern Folk Hero by Martin Zimmerman
  • A Slaying Song Tonight by John Olive
  • Blackout by Evan Sesek
  • Four Beers by David Van Vleck
  • A Little Time in the Fall by Berni Cockey
  • Script Consultant, Spirit Awakening by Akuyoe Graham
  • Reader, Joseph Papp Public Theater
  • Reader & Mentor, Young Playwrights Festival
  • Freelance Dramaturgy & Script Consultation
  • See id Theater's Development Page for full list of plays developed at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference

New Play Development Geek

  • Panelist, Ethics & Values in New Play Development, National New Play Lab, Steamboat Springs, CO
  • 2018 Guest Judge, Famous for Fifteen Minutes New Play Contest, Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society, Hamilton, Bermuda
  • Panelist, Best Practices in New Play Development, Stratera Conference, Denver, CO
    • Transcripts of this seminar later became the basis for an article on best practices featured on Howlround Theatre Commons
  • Guest Speaker, Salon Seminar: Directing New Plays, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, Seattle, WA
  • Panelist, What’s Next? New Developments in Development, NNPN 15th Anniversary/ Playwrights Weekend, InterAct Theater, Philadelphia
  • Lead Panelist, Playwrights in Charge, Dramatists Guild National Conference, Chicago, IL
  • Selected as one of 100 national leaders in new play development to participate in the inaugural convening of the National New Play Institute at Arena Stage, Washington, DC

Teaching Positions

  • Current: Stonecoast, low-residency MFA in Creative Writing - Dialogue workshop with co-instructor Tom Coash
  • Instructor, Einhorn School for Performing Arts/Primary Stages - online program classes: The First Draft and Rewrite
  • Head of Playwriting Program - Playwrights Horizons Theater School /New York University Tisch School for the Arts, Undergraduate Drama: Playwriting I, Advanced Seminar, Playwright/Director Collaboration​
  • Instructor -Rattlestick Playwrights Theater School​
  • Evaluator - College Program Assessment, Playwriting BFA Program, SUNY New Paltz
  • Instructor - Playwrights Horizons Adult Education Classes (Playwrighting I, II & Lab)
  • Instructor -Ohio University (Acting 101 for majors and non-majors)
  • Mentor - Playwrights Horizons Theater School (Directing Project Mentor)
  • Instructor - Playwrights Horizons Theater School (Acting I & Movement II)

Guest Artist / Speaker / Panelist

  • Panelist for Dramatists Guild Toolbox Workshop on Artistic Statements and Synopses at Boston Playwrights Theater (2019)
  • Director/Mentor for NEW NOISES high school playwrights program at Boston Playwrights Theater
  • Guest Artist/Instructor, Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH - Intro to Theater
  • Mentor/Director, New Noises at Boston Playwrights Theater, Boston, MA (2017-2019)
  • Guest Speaker Literary Managers and Dramaturgs Association, Case Studies and Conversation Seminar Series, Tis the Season for Script Reading! Best Practices for Freelance Script Readers working in New Play Development, Digital Seminar
  • Guest Artist/Mentor - 2010 Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwriting Festival, Ohio University, Athens
  • Artist/Facilitator -Spirit Awakening Foundation
  • ​Panelist - Dramatists Guild seminar on the “Art of the Synopsis
  • Mentor - Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
  • Instructor - Playwriting Workshop, 2005 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
  • Guest Artist - SUNY - New Paltz, Playwrights Intensive at the Actors Institute

Publications

Articles & Interviews

Books & Articles Featuring Seven Devils Playwrights Conference

  • The Playwrights of Seven Devils, Idaho Statesman, June 2012
  • Development Havens by Mark Krause, The Dramatist, February 2011
  • The Play’s the Thing in McCall, Idaho Statesman, June 2009
  • Room to Grow, Stage Directions Magazine, October 2009
  • The Devil’s in the Details, Idaho Arts Quarterly, Summer 2009
  • Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, McCall Magazine, Summer/Fall 2005

Plays, Scene & Monologues

  • ​Light in Reading, Reacting, Writing (Cengage Learning Inc., 2011)
  • Happy Birthday Abby in Award Winning Comic Scenes Ages 13-18(Smith & Kraus)
  • Running in Circles Screaming in Best Short American Plays 2006-2007 (Applause)
  • Light in Best Short American Plays 2007-2008 (Applause)
  • Come Rain or Come Shine in Best Short American Plays 2005-2006 (Applause)
  • Light in Great Short Plays: Volume 6 (Playscripts.com)
  • American Eyes in Plays & Playwrights 1999 (NYTheatre Experience)
  • Throw of the Moon in Plays & Playwrights 1999 (NYTheatre Experience)
  • Mercy Falls - two monologues in Audition Arsenal (Smith & Kraus)
  • The Martyrdom of Washington Booth in Best Monologues for Men, 1999 –(Smith & Kraus)
  • The Feast of the Flying Cow… and Other Stories of War in Best Monologues for Men, 1999 (Smith & Kraus)
  • Mercy Falls in Best Monologues for Women, 1999 (Smith & Kraus)
  • Mercy Falls in Best Stage Scenes, 1999 (Smith & Kraus)

Honors & Associations

  • Finalist, 2023 The Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-Minute Plays
  • Finalist for the 2019 Otis L. Guernsey New Voices Award, Inge Festival
  • C1 PlayLab Fellow, Company One
  • Secretary, Board of Trustees, National Theatre Conference
  • Kilroy List, Honorable Mention (2015 & 2014)
  • 2014 Person of the Year, IndieTheaterNow.com
  • Inducted into Indie Theater Hall of Fame
  • Founding Member, id-iots at Play
  • National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
  • Woolrich Postgraduate Writing Fellow, Columbia University
  • Independent Artists Challenge Grant, The Field
  • Primary Stages Bug n’ Bub Award, Runner-up
  • With Mint Theater: 2002 Drama Desk Award (preserving and presenting little-known classics)and 2001
  • OBIE Award (for keeping us up to date on a hundred years ago)
  • Juggernaut Theater ArtsGym Writers Lab, New York
  • Echo Theater Company Playwrights Lab, Los Angeles
  • Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Playwrights Company
  • New York Play Development Lab
  • Expanded Arts Playwrights Lab
  • Member, Dramatist Guild of America

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Jeni Mahoney
Playwright, Director, Teacher
New Play Development Geek
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