Jennifer Haley

Jennifer Haley is an award-winning American playwright. She grew up in San Antonio, Texas, completed an MFA in creative writing at Brown University, and now lives in Los Angeles.[1]

Career

Her play, The Nether, was staged by Center Theatre Group in March 2013, at the Royal Court Theatre in July 2014, and at the MCC Theater in February 2015. It won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize[2] and seven Los Angeles Ovation Awards.[3] In January 2015, the Royal Court production transferred to the West End.[4]

Haley has worked with Center Theatre Group, the Royal Court Theatre, the Humana Festival of New American Plays, American Conservatory Theater, Theater 150, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, The Banff Centre, Sundance Theatre Lab, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Lark Play Development Center, Sacred Fools Theater Company, PlayPenn, Page 73, and the MacDowell Colony. She is a member of New Dramatists and the founder of LA's Playwrights Union.

In addition to her work for the theatre, Haley writes for the Netflix original series Hemlock Grove.

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Haley Traces Breadcrumbs at Ojai's Theater 150". LA Stage Times. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "West End's THE NETHER to Play Duke of York's Theatre, Jan. 30". Broadway World. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "Ovation Awards 2013: Center Theatre Group, La Mirada win big". The LA Times. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "West End's THE NETHER to Play Duke of York's Theatre, Jan. 30". Broadway World. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Haley Traces Breadcrumbs at Ojai's Theater 150". LA Stage Times. Retrieved 17 February 2015.

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