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Jennifer Haley

JENNIFER HALEY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency NY  represented by Chris Till

Jennifer Haley is a playwright whose work delves into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human relationships, identity, and desire. She won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Los Angeles Ovation Award and Drama Critics Circle Award for her play, The Nether, an exploration of the consequences of living out our darkest desires online. Other plays include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, a horror story about suburban video game addiction, and They Call Her Froggy, a noir thriller with interactive media design and a live soundtrack. Jennifers work has been developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, ONeill National Playwrights Conference, Lark Play Development Center, PlayPenn, Page 73, Seven Devils and the MacDowell Colony. She is a member of New Dramatists in New York City and lives in Los Angeles, where she founded the Playwrights Union. Jennifer currently writes for the Netflix original series, Hemlock Grove.

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below is a list of Jennifer Haley's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Breadcrumbs         Butcher's Daughter, The         Dreampuffs Of War         Edmundo         End, The         Froggy         Great Lover's Rumpus, The         La Reina De Los Angeles         Neighborhood 3: Requisition Of Doom         Nether, The         Sustainable Living

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs
Alida is a reclusive writer of fiction slowly losing her memories. Reluctantly, she has come to depend upon a young caregiver to complete her final book - an autobiography. Delving into the dark woods of her past, the two women wrestle over the nature of language, loneliness, and the essential self.

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1st Produced:
Studio Theater, Shepherdstown, West Virginia    10 Jul 2010

Organisations:
Contemporary American Theater Festival In West Virginia

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Play/Drama 105 min

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Butcher's Daughter, The

Synopsis:
a young woman searches for someone who can help her with a congenital condition. She has a knife instead of a hand

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Music by Catherine Berry; lyrics And book by Jennifer Haley

1st Produced:
Blue Theatre, Austin, Texas    2000

Organisations:
Refraction Arts

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Genre:
Musical

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Dreampuffs Of War

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Edmundo

Synopsis:
edmundo sits and talks of bygone days - the only thing that keeps him going through the centuries is a lost love

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Music by Will Walden; lyrics And book by Jennifer Haley

1st Produced:
Blue Theatre, Austin, Texas    2002

Organisations:
Refraction Arts

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Genre:
Musical

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End, The

End, The
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Written by Jennifer Haley; Allison Moore; A Rey Parmatmat and Dan Dietz

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Contained in: "Humana Festival 2011 - The Complete Plays" published by Playscripts Inc   978-0981909981

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Froggy

Synopsis:
Froggy spots a long lost lover in a video game and goes in search of him

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with interactive media design and a live soundtrack

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Genre:
noir thriller

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Great Lover's Rumpus, The

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part of Bell, Book & Candle

1st Produced:
Center Stage, Ny    2009

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Genre:
short play

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La Reina De Los Angeles

La Reina De Los Angeles
the end is near: the apocalypse and what might come after is the subject of this collaboration of five playwrights that will be performed by Actors theatre of Louisvilles acting apprentice Company. From the Book of Revelation to 2012, prophecies about the end of days have existed since the beginning of time. In the end, these five playwrights, all of whom have had work produced in previous Humana Festivals, envision scenarios ranging from a zombie infestation to a bunker beneath a high school

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part of the 2011 Humana Festival "the end". written by Dan Dietz, Jennifer Haley, Allison Moore, A. Rey Pamatmat, And Marco Ramirez

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Genre:
piece

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Neighborhood 3: Requisition Of Doom

Neighborhood 3: Requisition Of Doom
In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. the game setting? a subdivision with identical houses. the goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own.

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Humana Festival 2008: the Complete Plays brings together All eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd Annual cycle of world premiere productions staged At Actors theatre of Louisville. the seven full-length plays And four ten-minute plays represent An exceptional Array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre

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in Humana Festival 2008: the Complete Plays, Playscripts Inc
Samuel French, Inc - New York (2009) >>>    978-0970904683

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Genre:
dark comedy

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Nether, The

Nether, The
The Nether offers complete freedom  a new virtual wonderland provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of imagination.

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Winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Nether is both an intricate crime drama and a haunting sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of making dreams a reality.

1st Produced:
Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA    19 Mar 2013

Organisations:
Center Theatre Group

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Sustainable Living

Synopsis:
Emily and Darren enjoy the perfect creative and domestic life. Hes a celebrated architect, designer of their breathtaking green home above Los Angeles, and shes launched an eco-charity to save a village on the other side of the world. But one evening with a reality producer, her husband, and Darrens erstwhile best friend, the couple must take a hard look at the course of their future.

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1st Produced:
[Reading] Circle X Theatre, Los Angeles Ca    Jun 2014

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