Jenny Lyn Bader

A play inspired by a monument commemorating 22 inspirational women, first performed at its unveiling.

That site specific was directed by Nicole Galland. Audio version directed by Joan Kane coming soon!

Now streaming via the Broadway Podcast Network: Communal Table (22 min). 

Communal Table is a comedy about shared space, public conversation, and whether we can all just get along. Written by Jenny Lyn Bader, Directed by Jonathan Cook, and performed by Elizabeth D. Moore, Shelby Lauren Smith, & Mickey Lay.

(With a cameo by Jenny Lyn Bader as the voice of Siri.) 

Produced by the podcast Gather by the Ghostlight. 

Click here for more.

Best Women's Stage Monologues 2023,

a volume edited by Debbie Lamedman,

features two monologues from CEO.

Watch the play here: 

CEO zoom premiere

Guru of Touch, written in reaction to lockdown,

is now published

in Stage It and Stream It: Plays for Virtual Theater!

A collection edited by John Patrick Bray

To order the book, click here. 
Watch the play here:

Guru of Touch zoom premiere 

Watch the 12-minute comedy "Consent," featured in the 2023 Equity Library Theatre Short Play Festival. 

In a new play,

a tree speaks.

Its words remind us that human beings and plants share one interconnected ecosystem.

We are not alone on this earth.

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Get tickets and listen here.

Want to listen to Tree Confessions in Spanish? Get tickets at Alternativa.

The fifth edition of this resource handbook has now been published and includes Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library. 

Click here to view it online.

A "financial entertainment," this show tells you how one man followed his bliss and how you can follow yours too. Charlie Epstein, a financial adviser who has trained thousands of other financial advisors, shares how he went from being an insurance executive to being a professional actor, and more, in this solo play written by Jenny Lyn Bader. 

For tickets, click here. 

International Local: 7 is one of three plays now available on the Subway Plays app, a collection of audio works that the NY Times has called "wondrous." It's designed to be listened to between Times Square and Jackson Heights 74th St./Roosevelt. Rather than Act I and Act II, the play's acts are either Queensbound or Manhattanbound, and can be listened to in either order. Click here to get it from the app store. 

"A charming play with an excellent script and great performances. Go on — join the healing circle!"
—British Theatre Guide 

Click here to watch. 

Evan Maltby stars in "Sad Maps," written & directed by Jenny Lyn Bader, part of the Vaccine Monologues, where different playwrights explore the Fauci "Ouchie," in a virtual festival comissioned and produced by Luna Stage. "Sad Maps" offers the post-vaccine perspective of a social studies teacher and geography enthusiast who hasn't been in a room with anyone for a while...  Watch here. 

In Plays International and Europe

"Great ensemble and put together beautifully, My First Time will make you want to vote and to hope for better outcomes."
— MNN-TV

"Will inspire you to vote!"—6-second reviews

Part of the Voting Writes Project at Luna Stage. Watch HERE. 

Free of charge and only half an hour, it's a play you can experience in your own tub —or a bowl of water will do — and provides an intermission from all the pandemic drama. It's been featured in "best live theatre to livestream"/TimeOut, streamed in bathtubs in 30 countries, and translated into Russian and Spanish. Created by This is Not a Theatre Company, Jenny Lyn is one of the co-authors. 

You can read about this League of Professional Theatre Women panel here. 

Due to pandemic, the last two performances of this run have been postponed until further notice. If you had tickets they will be refunded or rescheduled. The United Solo Festival/London performance that was supposed to happen in September has been cancelled. Watch this space for updates; meanwhlie, click on the photo to learn more about Equally Divine. 

BIO

Jenny Lyn Bader's plays include Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library (Luna Stage); In Flight (NAAA Award Winner, London), premiered by Turn to Flesh Productions in New York; None of the Above (Lion Theatre), which former Outer Critics Circle President Marjorie Gunner called "easily the best play of the season," and was originally produced by New Georges; and Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage), also staged at Guild Hall (w/ Mercedes Ruehl). Her work has also been produced at the Brooklyn Museum, Humana Festival of New American Plays, and NY Int'l Fringe Festival ("Best of the Fringe" selection). 

At the United Solo Festival 2019, she won the Best Documentary One-Woman Show Award. At the O'Neill Playwrights Center she received the Edith Oliver Award for the playwright who, in the spirit of the late New Yorker critic, has "a caustic wit that deflates the ego but does not unduly damage the human spirit." She is also the recipient of the Randall Wreghitt Award, a Lark Playwriting Fellowship, and an Athena Theatre Playwriting Fellowship. Her plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service, Vintage, Applause, and Smith & Kraus, where twelve of her one-acts appear in the annual Best 10-Minute Play series.  

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. Her essays appear in Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation (Norton) and other anthologies.  A Harvard graduate, she was a frequent contributor to The New York Times "Week in Review." 

If you really want heaps more information about her, visit 

the page of the Endless Bio!