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Janine Nabers

JANINE NABERS  

 Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  


Janine Nabers recent honors: Sundance @ UCross Residency, The Macdowell Colony Residency and The Sam French New School for Drama Emerging Writer Award and the 2009-2010 Dramatist Guild Playwriting Fellowship. Janine is currently a member of Ars Nova Play Group and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer's Group and is an alumni of Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Her play WEST OF THE WILLOW TREE was a finalist for: the Princess Grace Award, The Victory Gardens Theater Ignition playwriting Award, The Theodore Ward Playwriting Prize, Bay Area playwrights Festival and the winner of the 2009 New Professional Theater Playwriting Award. Other plays include: WELCOME TO JESUS (Soho Rep), WHEN THE LEVEE BROKE (Workshop Theater Company), JUNIPER; JUBILEE (Samuel French Festival Winner 08), and GENERATION GRAFFITI (Samuel French Festival finalist 09). Her play ANNIE BOSH IS MISSING will be developed at the TLC emerging writing program this fall. Janine is published by Sam French. MFA: The New School for Drama.

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 Black Girl Gone         Family Business         Generation Graffiti         Gentrifusion         Juniper:Jubilee         Let's Tap         Missed Connections

Black Girl Gone

Janine Nabers
No-one can forget the moment they heard the news. September 11th, 2001 sent shockwaves across the globe. It was a day that was supposed to change the world forever.Ten years on, a team of major writers and thinkers explore our responses to the defining event of our times in a new production from Headlong, creators of the multi award-winning ENRON. Rupert Goold's theatre company transforms a former trading hall into an immersive theatrical experience, taking you from the tranquil setting of St Katharine Docks on the River Thames to the bright blue skies of downtown Manhattan and beyond.

Notes:
part of Decade: Two towers. Ten years. Twenty plays. Ten years After 9/11, twenty international writers respond to the defining event of our times. Published here Are their individual plays, which woven together formed the basis of Decade, An immersive theatrical production from Headlong theatre company. The writers: Samuel Adamson, Mike Bartlett, Alecky Blythe, Adam Brace, Ben Ellis, Ella Hickson, Samuel D. Hunter, John Logan, Matthew Lopez, Mona Mansour, DC Moore, Abi Morgan, Rory Mullarkey, Janine Nabers, Lynn Nottage, Harrison David Rivers, Simon Schama, Christopher Shinn, Beth Steel, Alexandra Wood.

1st Produced:
Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London E1W 1AZ    01 Sep 2011

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Headlong

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short piece

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Family Business

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written by Paul DeSena, Megan Lohne, Margaret McCloskey, Janine Nabers

1st Produced:
Producer's Club, The Royale Theater, NY    2007

Organisations:
Etc., in association with Lovecreek

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Generation Graffiti

Synopsis:
Janine Nabers' Generation Graffiti: Welcome to Spice Lane, where every boy you know is a Latin King. . .but only one can be Jesus.

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1st Produced:
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NY    2009

Organisations:
34th Off Off Broadway Samuel French Short Play Festival

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Gentrifusion

Synopsis:
In Gentrifusion, playwrights Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers and Crystal Skillman explore the different truths surrounding the gentrification of New York's neighborhoods. The playwrights were charged with breaking down the cliched idea of "gentrification." Their pieces dig deeper to address the ways that change both improves and diminishes a community. All residents are given voice in this series, ultimately discovering that both long time residents and the new crop of gentrifiers benefit and suffer in different measures and different ways.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Carla Ching, Joshua Conkel, Michael John Garces, Jon Kern, Janine Nabers, Crystal Skillman

1st Produced:
LABA Theatre at the 14th Street Y    29 Jan 2011

Organisations:
Red Fern Theatre Company

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Play/Drama

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Juniper:Jubilee

Janine Nabers
Juniper is a thirteen-year-old South African girl who has just moved to America and is homesick for the country she left behind. She quickly meets Matt; a drum-playing, yarmulke-wearing kid from school and the two hit it off. When Juniper's innocent sexual encounters with Matt begin to trigger certain memories from her forgotten childhood in Sudan, Juniper is forced to come head to head with the ghosts of her past.

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1st Produced:
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, NYC    2008

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Play/Drama

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Let's Tap

Synopsis:
Part of The Wii Plays. This is an evening of original short plays and live music, inspired by the titles of Nintendo Wii games. The selections are: Wii Tennis by Molly Smith Metzler, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Barbie as the Island Princess by Tasha Gordon-Solmon, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Let's Tap by Janine Nabers, directed by Portia Krieger, Marvel Superhero Squad by Chad Beckim, directed by Stephen Brackett, Buck Fever by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Portia Krieger, Alien Monster Bowling League by Matthew Lopez, directed by Laura Savia, Tomb Raider: Anniversary by Kara Lee Corthron, directed by Laura Savia, Burger Island by Gregory Moss, directed by Portia Krieger, All Star Cheer Squad by Jenny Connell, directed by Laura Savia, Sword Play: Speed Slice by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Lila Neugebauer, Bob the Builder: Festival of Fun by Amy Herzog, directed by Stephen Brackett, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games by Joe Tracz, dir. by Stephen Brackett.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019    01 Feb 2011

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Missed Connections

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Part of A program of short plays And killer live music inspired by Ads for the ones that got Away. Featuring plays by Annie Baker, Bekah Brunstetter, Dylan Dawson, Kristoffer Diaz, Zayd Dohrn, Tasha Gordon-Solmon, Amy Herzog, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Steven Levenson, Matthew Lopez, Janine Nabers, And Samuel Brett Williams, All of the play titles Are taken directly from Actual Craigslist Missed Connections Ads.
- nytheatre.com

1st Produced:
Ars Nova, NY    26 Jan 2010

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