Jacquelyn Reingold | |
---|---|
Born | March 13, 1959 |
Occupation | American playwright, screenwriter, and producer |
Nationality | American |
Education | MFA in playwriting from Ohio University |
Notable awards | 1994 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Roger Stevens Award |
Jacquelyn Reingold is an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer. She has written multiple plays and worked for television. Her television career started with writing for HBO.
Reingold was a dramatic writing teacher at Ohio University, New York University, and Columbia University. She is a part of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, including its Playwrights Unit. She is an alumnus of New Dramatists and co-founded the Honor Roll! group which advocates for women playwrights who are over 40 years old. [1] On September 26, 1995, Reingold and poet Veronica Patterson held a reading in Clearmont, Wyoming, at the YMCA Youth Center. [2]
She wrote the play String Fever, based around string theory, in 2003 for the Public Understanding of Science and Technology program from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Reingold said that she knew nothing about string theory before writing the play. [3] On March 31, 2004, her play 2B or Not 2B played as a public radio broadcast for Playing on Air. [4] Three of her other plays have also been broadcast for the company. [1] Her play They Float Up was performed in Dublin and off-Broadway in 2019. [5]
Reingold began writing for television for In Treatment on HBO and Law & Order: Criminal Intent on NBC. She is the executive producer for The Good Fight . She was a co-producer for Grace and Frankie on Netflix and Smash on NBC. [5]
Reingold earned an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University. [1]
Scott Collins of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the play Dear Kenneth Blake, about an immigrant from Cambodia, has characters that "verge perilously close to stereotypes", but that it is a "touching production". [6]
In 1993, her play Girl Gone won $15,000 from the Greenwall Foundation's Oscar M. Reubhausen Commission. [7] Girl Gone also won the 1994 Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Roger Stevens Award, became a finalist to receive the 1995 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and was an honorable mention to receive the Jane Chambers Award. [2] She also received a playwriting grant from New York Foundation for the Arts, two commissions from the Sloan Foundation, was a finalist for the Todd McNerney Prize, and received two Retreat Fellowships. [1]
Her plays have appeared in Women Playwrights: The Best of 1994 and Best American Short Plays 1994–95. [2]
Suzan-Lori Parks is an American playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist. Her play Topdog/Underdog won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2002; Parks was the first African-American woman to receive the award for drama. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.
Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist. Her work has appeared on the Broadway and Off-Broadway stage, in film, and on television. Among her awards are the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award. In 2012, she received the Athena Film Festival Award for Excellence as a Playwright and Author of Films, Books, and Television. She is a 2009 recipient of the Alex Awards. Her works have influenced American playwrights by bringing a feminist edge in her old works.
Lynn Nottage is an American playwright whose work often focuses on the experience of working-class people, particularly working-class people who are Black. She has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: in 2009 for her play Ruined, and in 2017 for her play Sweat. She was the first woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two times.
J. T. Rogers is an American playwright who lives in New York.
Jennifer Vanderbes is an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter.
Eduardo Oscar Machado is a Cuban playwright living in the United States. Notable plays by Machado include Broken Eggs, Havana is Waiting and The Cook. Many of his plays are autobiographical or deal with Cuba in some way. Machado teaches playwriting at New York University. He has served as the Artistic Director of the INTAR Theatre in New York City since 2004. He is openly gay.
Lisa Loomer is an American playwright and screenwriter who has also worked as an actress and stand-up comic. She is best known for her play The Waiting Room (1994), in which three women from different time periods meet in a modern doctor's waiting room, each suffering from the effects of their various societies' cosmetic body modification practices. She also co-wrote the screenplay for the film Girl Interrupted. Many of her plays deal with the experiences of Latinas and immigrant characters. Others deal with social and political issues through the lens of contemporary family life. Beyond that, Loomer's play The Waiting Room discusses issues such as body image, breast cancer, and non-Western medicine.
Gina Gionfriddo is an American playwright and television writer. Her plays Becky Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn were both finalists for the 2009 and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, respectively. She has written for the television series Law & Order and "FBI: Most Wanted."
Laura Maria Censabella is an American playwright and screenwriter. She has been awarded three grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts; two in playwriting for Abandoned in Queens and Three Italian Women, and The Geri Ashur Award in Screenwriting for her original screenplay Truly Mary. She is the Director of The Playwrights Unit of the Ensemble Studio Theatre
Susan Sojourna Collier is an American television writer and playwright with a background in poetry and playwriting.
Bridget Carpenter is a television writer and playwright.
Halley Feiffer is an American actress and playwright, best known for writing and showrunning Season 12 of American Horror Story.
Kenneth Lin is an American playwright and screenwriter. Lin's plays have been performed throughout the world and his TV shows have been distributed via Netflix, HBO, Cinemax, Hulu and more. In theatre, he is best known for his plays Po Boy Tango, Farewell My Concubine, and Kleptocracy. In Television, he is best known for his work on the Netflix series House of Cards, the Hulu Series, The First, and the Cinemax series, The Warrior. He is a member of the theater/music/film collective New Neighborhood.
Katori Hall is an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, actress, and director from Memphis, Tennessee. Hall's best known works include the hit television series P-Valley, the Tony-nominated Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, and plays such as Hurt Village, Our Lady of Kibeho, Children of Killers, The Mountaintop, and The Hot Wing King, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Briar Grace-Smith is a screenwriter, director, actor, and short story writer from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Maori theatre company He Ara Hou. Early plays Don't Call Me Bro and Flat Out Brown, were first performed at the Taki Rua Theatre in Wellington in 1996. Waitapu, a play written by Grace-Smith, was devised by He Ara Hou and performed by the group on the Native Earth Performing Arts tour in Canada in 1996.
Tracey Scott Wilson is an American playwright, television writer, television producer, and screenwriter. She graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in English and from Temple University with an MA in English Literature.
Bathsheba "Bash" Doran is a British-born playwright and TV scriptwriter living in New York City.
Melanie Marnich is an American television writer-producer and playwright. She co-created and serves as executive producer and co-showrunner for the upcoming Amazon series, The Expatriates. She has written for Big Love on HBO; Her episode, “Come, Ye Saints” for Big Love, earned her a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for best drama episode. It was also named Best Television Episode of 2009 by Entertainment Weekly, rated third in TIME Magazine's list of 10 Best TV episodes of 2009, and ranked in TV Guide's 100 Best Episodes of All Time.
C. Quintana is a Cuban-American playwright, poet, and writer. Her works have been published in literary journals and produced across the United States. The Heart Wants, her chapbook of poetry, was published in 2016 by Finishing Line Press.
Janine Nabers is an American playwright and television writer.