Jenny Lyn Bader
JENNY LYN BADER has written plays produced across the U.S. and internationally. Her audio works have streamed in over 30 countries and on five continents. Her plays include Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library (Luna Stage), In Flight (Turn to Flesh Productions), None of the Above (New Georges), Manhattan Casanova (Hudson Stage), Petticoat Government (ACT Theatre), and the audio solo work Tree Confessions (This is Not a Theatre Company, w/ Kathleen Chalfant). Her one-act play Communal Table is streaming from the Broadway Podcast Network in a radio theatre production by Gather by the Ghostlight. Her other one-acts include Worldness (Humana Festival of New American Plays), CEO (Urban Stages, Acronym Plays Challenge winner), Beta Testing (Symphony Space), and International Local (Subway Plays app/This is Not a Theatre Co.). At the O'Neill 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 without unduly damaging the human spirit." Her other honors include the "Best Documentary One-Woman Show" Award (United Solo Festival/Theatre Row), Athena Fellowship, Randall Wreghitt Award (TRU), "Best of Fringe" selection (NY Int'l Fringe Festival), Think Fast Fest "Audience Favorite" Award, and Lark Playwriting Fellowship (nominated by Wendy Wasserstein). She co-founded the multicultural theatre company Theatre 167, recipient of the Caffe Cino Award (NY Innovative Theatre Foundation). Jenny Lyn's solo play Equally Divine: The Real Story of the Mona Lisa was presented in the New York Society Library's new work series and featured in the Women's History Solo Series (14th St. Y). Her work has been published by Dramatists Play Service, Next Stage Press, Smith & Kraus, Applause, Vintage, The Lincoln Center Theater Review, Plays International & Europe, Drama and Spectacle, and The New York Times, where she served as a frequent contributor to the “Week in Review” when it existed. Jenny Lyn co-authored He Meant, She Meant (Warner Books). She is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University and belongs to the Dramatists Guild, Authors Guild, League of Professional Theatre Women, ICWP, and Honor Roll. For more, see www.jennylynbader.com