Coffee House luncheon : Jacquelyn Reingold
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About the Event
For this coming Coffee House luncheon, playwright & TV writer Jacquelyn Reingold will be joining us for a conversation about her life and work.
Her plays, which include Fear Less, Kiss Me Somewhere Else, String Fever (Cynthia Nixon & Evan Handler), Acapulco, I Know, A Story About a Girl, Girl Gone, 2B (Or Not 2B), Like Miriam, Freeze Tag, have been seen in New York at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, Working Theater, MCC, Axial Theater; Actors Theatre Louisville, Portland Center Stage, Theater J, PlayLabs Minneapolis; and in London, Dublin, Berlin, Belgrade, Hong Kong, Lima.
In television, Jackie was a Writer/Executive Producer for Paramount+’s critically acclaimed The Good Fight starring Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald. Other TV writing includes Best of Both Worlds, a pilot for John Wells Productions; CBS’ East New York; Netflix’s Grace and Frankie starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, NBC’s Smash, CBS’ BrainDead; NBC’s Law & Order CI; MTV’s Daria. Jackie wrote all the Mia episodes for Emmy nominated Gabriel Byrne and Hope Davis for HBO’s Peabody Award winning In Treatment.
Honors include: the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays, a “Go Make Theater” Lilly Award, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, EST/Sloan Foundation commissions, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, New Dramatists’ Whitfield Cook Award. Plus Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross, Albee, and Hermitage Artist Fellowships.
Jackie’s plays have been published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays, several Best American Short Plays, by Samuel French, Vintage Books, Smith & Kraus. A collection of her one-acts Things Between Us is published by DPS. Her short plays have been recorded by Playing On Air with Hope Davis, Richard Kind, William Jackson Harper, Jodi Long. Jackie wrote the Preface to She Persisted: 10 Minute Plays by Women+ over 40 and She Persisted: 100 Monologues by Women+ over 40.
Jacquelyn has taught dramatic writing at Tisch/NYU, Stonybrook-Manhattan, Ohio University. She has been a teaching artist across the country, and does private script consulting. A member of EST, The Tent Theater, a New Dramatists alum, Jacquelyn is a founding member of Honor Roll! a grass-roots group of older women playwrights. She and writer Cheryl Davis are on a campaign to meet with every theater in New York to advocate for women playwrights over fifty.
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RSVP-ed attendees will be enjoying lunch together during this event. On the day of the event, you can pay for your meal with a card or your membership account (no cash).