Jenny Lyn Bader

Playwright & Author






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Did Kafka really read porn?
in the New York Times Week in Review

BIO Plays include None of the Above (Lion Theatre) and Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage). Her work has also been produced at Center Stage NY, Humana Festival of New American Plays, New Georges, and NY Int'l Fringe, where her one-act Miss America was selected for "Best of the Fringe."

She has received a Lark Playwriting Fellowship (nominated by Wendy Wasserstein), the Edith Oliver Award for comedy (O'Neill Playwrights Conference), and commissions from Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, and City Theatre.

An acting edition of None of the Above is now available from Dramatists Play Service. Her one-act Valentine's Play appears in 2009: Best Ten Minute Plays (Smith & Kraus), and her one-acts The Third First Blind Double Date, One Night at Your Local Superstore, and Past Lives are published in 2007: Best 10-Minute Plays. Her work also appears in Under Thirty: Plays for a New Generation, Leading Women: Plays for Actresses, Best Stage Scenes of 2001, NEXT: Young American Writers on the New Generation, and 2004: Best Ten-Minute Plays. Her work has been developed at the O'Neill Center, Guild Hall (w/​ Mercedes Ruehl), Women's Project Directors Forum (w/​ Eli Wallach), and Chicago Her-Rah 2007: "A Festival of the World's Best Women Playwrights and Their New Plays", produced by the International Centre for Women Playwrights.

She wrote both seasons of the internet drama Watercooler (MSN) and has written scripts for Warner Brothers, NBC, and HBO, where she developed a pilot with Billy Crystal. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard, she has been a guest artist at Cornell and Barnard, a faculty member at The New School, and a frequent contributor to The New York Times. Currently, she is Playwright in Residence of the Mirror Repertory Company.

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Mercedes Ruehl and Heather Goldenhersh in Manhattan Casanova (Guild Hall)


Alysia Reiner, Gwendolyn Walker, and Connor Barrett in Past Lives (Henlopen Theatre)

Selected Works

New York Times

"Week in Review"

•Why We Chitchat
Post-9/11 Small Talk Looms Large
New York Times

"Week in Review"

•How to Land the Bachelor
Primetime dating strategies!
A Male-Female Dictionary!
•He Meant, She Meant:

The Definitive

Male-Female Dictionary -

What Men Don't Know

They're Saying,

What Women Really Mean
-Now available on Kindle!

"Isn't this the funniest book ever?"-WCKG

"A Berlitz crash course in the female language" -Men's Health

"Very Cute and Very Funny!"-CNN

"The most extraordinary invention for sex life

since The Pill"

-actual blurb on back of Italian edition, unattributed