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Jennifer

O'Grady

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Sister/Mister

First Name

Jennifer

Last name

O'Grady

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Biography

Poet and playwright Jennifer O'Grady's plays are produced across the U.S. and internationally. Her full-length plays include CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS (Rising Artist and1st Place Henley Rose Awards; O'Neill Semifinalist and other honors); PARANORMAL LOVE (MTWorks Newborn Award; NEWvember Finalist; Pandora's Box Honorable Mention and other honors); FERTILE GROUND (Semifinalist for the O'Neill Conference, Princess Grace Award/New Dramatists Fellowship and Panndora's Box); still small voice (Mozie Incubator Finalist) and more.. Her short plays have won awards and are published in multiple editions of The Best Ten-Minute Plays and Best New Ten-Minute Plays among other anthologies. Her work is also included in multiple editions of The Best Women's Stage Monologues and other publications. Her plays have been presented by The Irish Rep, 6th Street Playhouse, Attic Salt Theatre, Brave New World Rep, Short + Sweet, Little Fish Theatre's Pick of the Vine, Lakeshore Players 10-Minute Play Festival, Heartland Theatre Company's 10-Minute Play Festival, Rover Dramawerks, Weathervane Playhouse, Gi60, PlayZoomers and many more. She is also the author of the poetry books WHITE (Mid-LIst First Series Award) and EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS (MadHat Press). Her poems are published, reprinted, broadcast and shared in numerous places including Poetry, Harper's, The New Republic, The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, BBC Radio 4 and American Poetry: The Next Generation. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and a BA from Vassar, where she won awards for her writing. She and her family live near New York City. (www.jenniferogrady.net)

Representative Play Titles

Charlotte's Letters, Ellery, Paranormal Love, Persephone, The Great Gaffe, Pre-War

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USA

Website

www.jenniferogrady.net

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