Jenny Schwartz

Personal Information

Jenny Schwartz’s plays include Iowa, God’s Ear, Somewhere Fun, 41-derful, and Cause For Alarm. With Todd Almond, she received the Frederick Loewe Award for the development of Iowa. Other awards include the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin H. Danks Award, a Kesselring honor, two grants from Lincoln Center’s Lecomte Du Nuoy Foundation, two residencies with the Sundance Theatre Institute, and Soho Rep’s Dorothy Streslin Fellowship. God's Ear and Somewhere Fun were finalists for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Alum of Juilliard and New Dramatists; affiliated artist at Clubbed Thumb and New Georges; co-chair of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.

Credits

Author

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Iowa	Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater	04/13/2015	Playwright
2	Iowa	Playwrights Horizons/ Peter Jay Sharp Theater	04/13/2015	Lyricist
3	Somewhere Fun	Vineyard Theatre	06/04/2013	Playwright
4	God's Ear	Vineyard Theatre	04/17/2008	Playwright
5	God's Ear	Vineyard Theatre	04/17/2008	Additional Lyrics

Awards

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical	Iowa	Playwright
			Iowa	Lyricist
2	NOMINATED	2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize	Somewhere Fun	Playwright
3	WON	2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize