Jen Diamond
Jen Diamond is a playwright, screenwriter, and very chill girl. She writes spooky, funny plays about friendship, girlhood, and the performance of self.
Some of her plays for the stage include PAGEANT PLAY (Finalist, National Playwrights Conference 2024), THE BAD GUY (Workshops at Firehouse Theatre and The Barter Theatre; Appalachian Festival of Plays & Playwrights), PORN: A LOVE STORY (Honorable Mention, Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards; Commissioned by Cohesion Theatre Company), THE ALIBI PLAY (Baltimore Theatre Project; Recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant), and HERE WE ARE (Kennedy Center/Page-to-Stage; Interrobang Theatre).
Jen is a current Woodward Resident. She has been a Finalist for SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Come to the Table Residency and The Bechdel Project’s ROO Residency; a Semi-Finalist for the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator; a Wright-Right-Now Playwright at Baltimore Center Stage; and a Finalist for the City Theatre National Award. Her original TV pilot, co-written with Pam Hugi, won the Austin Film Festival’s Warner Bros. Entertainment Pilot Award.
Other work has been presented or developed at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Dixon Place, Good Apples Collective, The Brick Aux, City Theatre Miami, American Lives Theatre, The Tank, and others.
Jen holds a B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and a MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College. www.jen-diamond.com