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Jennifer Lynne Roberts
San Francisco Bay Area
I'm a writer on the search.
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My play, LUNCH HOUR, was chosen for Playground's WomenArts night this past March as part of National SWAN day. The topic was "She Works Hard For The Money: Women At Work." It was an incredible experience. So many great plays. Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2016 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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San Francisco Olympians Festival VI: Wine Dark Sea - November, 2015. Honored to be commissioned again for this show. Cody Rishell did the awesome artwork for my play about Admetus and his Wife, Alcestis. Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2016 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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ReproRights! Women@Risk is an evening of short works in support of NARAL - Pro-Choice California in conjunction with 3Girls Theatre's Risky Women-themed new works festival. ReproRights! is ONE NIGHT ONLY: August 6, 2015 at 7:30pm. Megan Cohen - OH GOOD LORD Chardonnay - BOOM, SPLAT Margy Kahn - CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2015 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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Women in Solodarity: Waking Up! opens June 12th. Tickets Available. Women in Solodarity is All Terrain Theatre's annual showcase of solo performances by women and is part of the International Home Theatre Festival. WIS creates a space for women to have the "opportunity to to experiment with solo storytelling, monologues,... Continue reading
Posted Jun 2, 2015 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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Mars One Project will be part of The Navigators Theater Company's Lift Off New Play Series, July 10 and 11 at 7:30 pm at The Players Theater in NYC! Check out the video of the reading HERE. Continue reading
Posted May 19, 2015 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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I talk about Wily West's season announcement on my blog, as well as mentioning a couple of my other projects this year. Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2015 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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Read my artistic statement about what inspired me to write TO THE LIGHT ALIVE and the bio for Admetus: Argonaut. King of Pherae in Thessaly. Husband to Alcestis. Host with the Most. On SF Olympians website. Further follow my inspirations on Tumblr. Continue reading
Posted Feb 5, 2015 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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Honored to have received 2014 BEST SHORT PLAY for Mars One Project. STUEY recognitions include: BEST ADDITION TO THE BAY AREA THEATRE SCENE - The Bay Area Theatre Awards BEST NEW VENUE - PianoFight BEST THEATER FESTIVAL - San Francisco Fringe Festival (EXIT Theatre) BEST SHOW - "Our Town" (Shotgun... Continue reading
Posted Jan 12, 2015 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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I've been invited to Otterbein University's English Department's Writers and Scholars Series to participate in a Literary Citizenship Festival at the end of the month alongside alumnae, Jen Knox, Ladan Osman, and Becca J.R. Lachman. We will be speaking to a group of 80+ high schoolers on "The Joy of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2015 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
I've been commissioned to write for Women in Solodarity, All Terrain Theater’s annual showcase of solo performances by women. Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2015 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
I've been commissioned for the San Francisco Olympians Festival, which will take place November 4th through November 21st at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco. Visit my blog for more. Continue reading
Posted Jan 3, 2015 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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12 nights of 28 new play readings by 30 local playwrights will take place November 5 through November 22nd at th Exit Theatre in San Francisco. I was commissioned to write a short play about Naiads, along with seven other writers, each tackling a different nymph, for the first night... Continue reading
Posted Nov 3, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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The Killing Jar was treated to a wonderful staged reading at Theater MadCap last week. Eric Reid, Artistic Director, has created a ten-week STAGED series that explores and promotes inquiry into what 'diversity' means. Each play is chosen for its ability to provide diversity whether through casting or subject matter.... Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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"Photo Dynamic Therapy" opens with Sheherezade 14 on June 7th at the Exit Theatre, San Francisco. Sheherezade is a co-production between The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco and Wily West Productions. Continue reading
Posted May 15, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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I'm thrilled to take part in Dayton Playhouse's FutureFest! Also thrilling, half of the playwrights chosen this year are women. Dayton Daily News interviewed me and playwright M.J Feeley about FutureFest. This is Mr. Feeley's fifth time at fest, my first. Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
The Killing Jar is a finalist in Dayton Playhouse's FutureFest and will have a reading the weekend of July 25-27th. Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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"Meet Claudia" and "Mars One Project" are being produced for Wily West Productions' SUPERHEROES beginning July, 2014. SUPERHEROES began as a six-week writing project with eight, Bay Area playwrights writing on the them of Superheroes, which culminates in a fully produced show that will play in July & August. Kat... Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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It's our fifth fest and our first time at Tides Theatre. The new space was beautiful to work in and Jennifer Welch at Tides was a dream to work wtih. The move to the bigger space proved to be the right one as we sold out once again, though there... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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Photo Dynamic Therapy has also been selected for Theatre Art West's The Women's Project, June 19-22nd. Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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"Photo Dynamic Therapy" is being produced by Wily West Productions and The Playwrights Center of San Francisco June, 2014 at the Exit Theater. Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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I've been commissioned to write about the Naiads for this year's San Francisco Olympians Festival. Here's a sneak peak of my still un-named play about the Naiads of Catawba-Wateree River in South Carolina. The festival runs Nov. 5-November 22, 2014 at the Exit Theater, SF. For details, go HERE and... Continue reading
Posted Jan 16, 2014 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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Freeze Tag, a short play written for The Playwrights' Center of San Franciso's 24-Hour Fest is being read at Pacifica Table Readers. Continue reading
Posted Jul 20, 2013 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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My latest full length play, "The Killing Jar," is heading to Butterfield 8 Theater Company's New Works Series in July! The New Works Series will feature five new plays by local, Bay Area playwrights and will run all summer. "The Killing Jar," directed by John Butterfield, will go up before... Continue reading
Posted Jun 9, 2013 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts
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My latest full length play, "The Killing Jar," is part of Dragon Productions' New Play Development Factory running May 24-June7, 2013, along with "Sexbot," by Jake Arky and "Almost Happy" by Jacob Marx Rice. The New Play Development Factory will workshop three original full length scripts by Bay Area playwrights... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at Jennifer Lynne Roberts