Happy Spring and thanks to everyone at The Mirror Repertory Company who participated in the special concert performance of OUT OF MIND on Tuesday... featuring Zina Anaplioti, Lauren Blumenfeld, Bhavna de Montebello, Anthony Fazio, Sas Goldberg, Devon Jackson, Max Jenkins, Erin Krakow, Rocco Natale, Nicole Pacent, Dan Pfau, Alysia Reiner, Max Shulman, and Kate Taney. Directed by Julie Kramer in no time flat.
Earleir this season: Emmanuelle Chriqui and John Lloyd Young performing in Jenny Lyn's one-act play "Best Friends" at WET's Love Benefit in February '09. Directed by Abby Epstein.
BIO Jenny Lyn Bader's plays include None of the Above (Lion Theatre), Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage), and Out of Mind (NYU/Strasberg). Her work has also been produced at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, New Georges, Center Stage NY, 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 forthcoming from Dramatists Play Service. Her one-acts The Third First Blind Double Date, One Night at Your Local Superstore, and Past Lives are published in Best 10-Minute Plays: 2007. 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 Best Ten-Minute Plays: 2004. 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 Harvard graduate, 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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