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JENI MAHONEY |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Susan Schulman Literary Agency |
Jeni's plays including The Feast Of The Flying Cow& And Other Stories Of War, Come Rain Or Come Shine, Running In Circles Screaming, The Martyrdom Of Washington Booth, Mercy Falls, American Eyes, Light, Gogli Mogli and Kandahar have been presented at the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Center, InterAct Theater (Philadelphia), Greenwich Playhouse (London), L.A. Theater Center, Key City Public Theater (WA), Source Theater (DC), MidWest New Play Festival (Chicago), Lark Theater's Playwrights Week, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, NYU's hotINK Festival, Denver's Old Vic and Chicago Womens Theater Alliance among others. Jeni is the recipient of an Independent Artists Challenge Grant from Field and a Woolrich Postgraduate Fellowship from Columbia University. She twice served as a panelist for the Dramatists Guild "Art of the Synopsis" seminar, was a 2010 guest artist/mentor for the Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwriting Festival at Ohio University, and featured writer for the NY Madness at 13th Street Rep. Jeni is also the Founding Artistic Director of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, a project of id Theater; and Head of the Playwriting Program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America.
Plays by Jeni Mahoney
American Eyes | ||
| 1st Produced: | part of "Washington Square Dreams" | - - - | ||||
Company: | GorillaRep | |||||
| 1st Published: | Plays and Playwrights 2001. (NY Theatre Experience), | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41909 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Soso thinks he understands English and he hopes to impress Maka on their first date to Washington Square Park. When they stumble across an outdoor production of "A Midsummer's Night's Dream," Soso finds himself seriously challenged - as does the interpreter trying to translate their date (and the play) for the audience - in this meta-play about love, language and the plight to be understood. | |||||
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Bad Water Juju | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126815 | |||
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Genre: | Circus/comedy/satire | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 12 or more characters the vast majority of which are not gender specific. | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | The Bad Water Juju Circus has hit hard times. Luckily, the clowns have a plan... but watch out because the jokers are willing to do whatever it takes to push their extreme, and very final, solution all the way to its dramatic, and not so funny, end. | |||||
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Come Rain or Come Shine | ||
| 1st Produced: | Nuyorican Poets Cafe | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | The American Short Plays 2005-2006 (Applause) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126811 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Mom doesn't know why it's taken Luke so long to break the news, she's liberal after all, but she's thrilled that after years away Luke finally coming home to tell her he's gay. He's even bringing his new boyfriend Chris! Chris is his boyfriend. . .right? | |||||
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Feast of the Flying Cow, The - and Other Stories of War | ||
| 1st Produced: | Philadelphia, PA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | InterAct Theater Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | excerpted in "Best Stage Monologues for Men 1999" (Smith & Kraus), | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22041 | |||
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Genre: | Social - Political Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Runner up: Bug 'n Bub Award at Primary Stages | |||||
Synopsis: | Audrey, a socialite turned relief worker, finds herself in a war-torn nation awarding a free feast and celebrity-style photo shoot to the besieged family of Anya Andonov. Trapped in a world that is as absurd and laughable, as it is brutal, Anya and Audrey struggle to salvage their feast as the world around them spirals into collapse. | |||||
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Kandahar | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126814 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | 2010 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference | |||||
Synopsis: | Against a suburban backdrop of suicide, lawn darts and affairs of heart, Ginger and Freddie Hofsteadler discover that the most dangerous game is indeed life, and the most lethal opponent& one's own heart. Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's 1910 masterpiece Das weite Land, Kandahartraverses the unknowable peaks and the chaotic depth of the human heart. | |||||
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Light | ||
| 1st Produced: | Moving Arts New Play Festival (Los Angeles, CA, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41907 | |||
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Genre: | 15-20 min Seriocomedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A spiritual rebirth, under the guidance of a mysterious, self-proclaimed guru, is Helena's motivation for re-connecting with her childhood friend, and recent divorcee, Abby. But the joyous reunion is short-lived when Abby discovers out that Helena's new path requires her to forget her past - including Abby. | |||||
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Martyrdom of Washington Booth, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Key City Public Theater's Annual Playwriting Festival | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | excerpted in Best Stage Monologues for Men, 1999 (Smith & Kraus), | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41911 | |||
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Genre: | Serio-comic Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist: National Playwrights Conference, 2000 & 2001 | |||||
Synopsis: | Virgilia's plan to impress a local militia hero is thrown into jeopardy when the lethal virus they've arranged to purchase from a mysterious African nationalist is accidentally unleashed - on her own father. As she struggles to find a way out of her dilemma she is forced to ask herself: who hears the voice of God? And who is qualified to decipher it? | |||||
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Mercy Falls | ||
| 1st Produced: | 30th Street Theater, NYC | - - - | ||||
Company: | Aegean Theater Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | excerpted in "Best Stage Scenes 1999" and "Best Stage Monologues for Women, 1999" (Smith & Kraus), | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41908 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | New York productions selected as one of the top "1000 Things To Do" for the holidays by Time Out Magazine | |||||
Synopsis: | A Hospital Christmas play that will leave you in stitches! Marcy Wuggelson is a jinx, she's always known it, so when she decides to visit her favorite self-help author, Wanda Moore, in the hospital on Christmas Eve, the scene is ripe for disaster. But Wanda discovers something priceless in Marcy - the subject for her new book. With the help of Santa's Reindeer, the Ghost of Christmas Future, a Nun, and phenomenologist Martin Heidegger, Marcy performs a true Christmas miracle. | |||||
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Running in Circles Screaming | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source Theater | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Best American Short Plays 2006-2007 (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126812 | |||
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Genre: | Serio-comic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Louise and Heather watch their kids on the playground sharing stories of mommy-hood joys but when Heather shares her disappointment, Louise turns out not to be the soul-sister she was looking for. Heather doesn't know how right she is. | |||||
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Salty | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126813 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Finalist, Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville | |||||
Synopsis: | To celebrate his birthday, Chase takes her friend Franklin on his first trip to see the ocean. Facing the wide expanse, Franklin musters the courage to finally free himself from a truth he's still learning to come to terms with, and embrace the newfound optimism that comes with self-acceptance. | |||||
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Scatter | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126816 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Randi struggles to hold her fractured family together just long enough to scatter her grandmother's ashes with some dignity& but they're not going make it easy. | |||||
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Throw of the Moon | ||
| 1st Produced: | part of "Washington Square Dreams" | - - - | ||||
Company: | GorillaRep | |||||
| 1st Published: | Plays and Playwrights 2001. (NY Theatre Experience), | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41910 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Ben Sahl and Jeni Mah0ney | |||||
Synopsis: | Midge knows her mechanic husband Tony is stepping out on her, and with the begrudging help of her couch-potato brother Bobby, she manages to catch him red-handed, only to discover that Tony's not in love with another woman, he's in love with Shakespeare! | |||||
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