Jennifer Maisel

Known for her thought-provoking dramas about the transcendency of human connection and identity, Jennifer Maisel has written plays that have been produced nationally and internationally. The Last Seder premiered off-Broadway with Gaby Hoffmann and Greg Mullavey after productions around the country and abroad. Before its critically acclaimed world premiere at Antaeus theatre in the fall of 2019, Jennifer developed Eight Nights with the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Bay Street Theatre, Playmakers, Moving Arts and Antaeus; that production was nominated for nine coveted Ovation Awards and won for Best Playwriting. The play was also part of nationwide fundraiser for HIAS called “8 nights of Eight Nights” and sold out its run at Detroit Public Theatre in 2023. Her Out of Orbit was workshopped at the Gulf Shore New Play Festival as well as the Sundance Theatre Lab, and was awarded an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P Sloan rewrite commission for plays about science and technology before making the 2016 Kilroy List and winning both the Stanley Award and the Woodward Newman Award for Drama. It premiered at Williamston Theatre and Bloomington Playwrights Project in 2018. Her Pen West Literary finalist There or Here premiered in New York and London. Her @thespeedofJake, also a Pen West Literary finalist, premiered in LA with Playwrights’ Arena.