Jenny Schwartz

Jenny Schwartz’s play, God's Ear, was produced in New York by New Georges and Vineyard Theatre and was directed by Anne Kauffman. God's Ear has been produced nationally and internationally, from Lisbon, Portugal to Boise, Idaho to Sydney, Australia. Ms. Schwartz is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Benjamin H. Danks Award in Drama. She has also received a Kesselring honor, a Susan Smith Blackburn special commendation, and two grants from Lincoln Center's Lecomte du Nuoy Foundation. She was selected as the inaugural recipient of Soho Rep's Dorothy Streslin Playwriting Fellowship and attended the Sundance Institute in Ucross, Wyoming. She is an Associate Artist with The Civilians, a member of New Dramatists, and a graduate of Juilliard. She received an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University. Her play, Somewhere Fun, is a co-commission from Soho Rep in NY and Soho Theatre in London. She is working on a musical with Todd Almond and a commission for South Coast Rep. Other plays include Cause For Alarm which was presented at FringeNYC, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.