Penny Jackson Biography

Penny Jackson is a New York City-based dramatist, novelist, and short storey writer. I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT, SAFE, LOUISE IN CHARLESTOWN, and BITTEN are among the plays included. Her piece, I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT, was named the Best Bet for Off Broadway Theatrical by the theatre review site Theater Is Easy. I KNOW WHAT BOYS WANT was also named one of the finest Off Broadway productions by NYTHEATER.COM, and it was Indie Theater Now's best-selling play of 2014. SAFE, which won best new play at the Planet Connections Theater Festivity in New York City and was later presented at 59E59 and the Edinburgh Fringe at the Space/North Bridge Theater, won best new play at the Planet Connections Theater Festivity in New York City. SAFE, a site-specific play for a pub, was the only American finalist for The Kenneth Branagh Award for Drama in The Windsor Fringe this fall, and was produced in Dublin in 2014. BITTEN, a site-specific play for a pub, was the only American finalist for The Kenneth Branagh Award for Drama in The Windsor Fringe, and was produced in Dublin in 2014. Jackson's play BEFORE was just named one of the finest American short plays of 2016 by Applause Theatre. BEFORE took first place in The University of Illinois-gun Urbana's control play competition, and it was included in Dixon Place Theater's Necessary Exposure show, which focused on female writers. The New York Public Library named Jackson's novel BECOMING THE BUTLERS, published by Bantam Books, as one of the finest novels for young adults, and Warner Brothers optioned it for cinema. In the United States, England, Ireland, and Scotland, her short tales have appeared in literary journals. The title tale in her short storey collection, L.A. CHILD, published by Untreed Reads, earned a Pushcart Prize for best storey in a literary magazine. The Elizabeth Janeway Prize for Writing from Barnard College, a Stanford University Mirrelieis Fellowship for Writing, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship are among the honours she has received. The Dramatists Guild, The League of Professional Theatre Women, and The International Center of Women Playwrights are all proud members of her.

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