From Salon.com "The Best TV of 2009" by Heather Havrilesky:
"...As tough as it was to invent a worthy follow-up to "In Treatment's" dynamic first season, all of the new clients were compelling, from retiring business executive Walter (John Mahoney), with his alternately infuriating and heartbreaking self-protective tics, to biological time bomb Mia (Hope Davis), who may be my favorite complicated, conflicted female character ever to appear on a drama other than "Six Feet Under"...
Just published, A VERY VERY SHORT PLAY, in "The Best Stage Monologues and Scenes", and in "The Best 10-Minute Plays," both books edited by Lawrence Harbison, published by Smith and Kraus.
A reading of A STORY ABOUT A GIRL was in the Octoberfest at Ensemble Studio Theatre, in October, '09. Directed by Rebecca Taichman; with Aya Cash, Julie Fitzpatrick, Alfredo Narciso, Joseph Parks, Debargo Sanyal, Tamilla Woodard.
Jackie wrote episode six, "Makin' Love & Makin' War" for CEDAR CITY FALS, a "weekly serial in 8 parts" created by Liz Tucillo, directed by John Ruocco, performed in November, '09 at Galapagos in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Thirty actors, a live band, a goat skull, a blast. Read about CCF in The NY Times.
Jackie taught three workshops, playwriting and tv writing, in July '09 at the Stony Brook Southampton Writers Conference.
"A Very Very Short Play" is a finalist for the 2010 Heideman Award at The Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Jackie and Ian Mairs' short plays were presented in "Summer Shorts: Jackie and Me" (!) in Jacksonville Florida, July '09.
Jackie was a mentor/panelist for the MFA Playwrights' Festival. Many congrats to the OU Playwrights!
Jackie's play 2B (OR NOT 2B) was included in MATCH GAMES, an evening of short plays about romance, produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville on their mainstage, directed by Michael Bigelow Dixon, curated by Amy Wegener, from January, 6-February 7, 2009.
MATCH GAMES was presented as a reading at the Kennedy Center, August, 2008 in their Page to Stage series.
Jackie was delighted to be on the writing staff for LAW AND ORDER CRIMINAL INTENT while Warren Leight was the Executive Producer.
Jackie wrote: "Maltese Cross," director Jim McKay, "World's Fair," director Steve Shill, the subplot in "Players," director Tom Dicillo, "Renewal," director Norberto Barba, "Lonelyville," director Constantine Makris, and "Reunion," director Jean de Segonzac.
Jackie was interviewed for a CUNY-TV documentary, directed by Lisa Beth Kovetz, "celebrating the ten year collaboration between top scientists and major playwrights in the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project."
Jackie's short play, A VERY VERY SHORT PLAY was produced in the One-Act Marathon, Ensemble Studio Theatre, directed by Jonathan Bernstein, acted by Adam Dannheiser and Julie Fitzpatrick, June, 2008. It will be published by Smith & Kraus, in a collection edited by Larwrence Harbison. A monologue from the play will also be published in "Best Men's Stage Monologues 2009," edited by Lawrence Harbison.
Jackie wrote her first A TRAIN PLAY, "a daredevil theatre project in which playwrights, librettists, lyricists, composers, choreographers and directors create new work from scratch during the course of a single New York City subway ride. The performers, live band and designers then have 24 hours to put it all together, get off book, rehearse and perform the show," TheaterSource. Performed June '08.
Jackie's very short play A VERY VERY SHORT PLAY, was read at Ensemble Studio Theatre in the Playwrights Unit's March Madness Festival, March '08. The director was Jonathan Bernstein; actors Florencia Lozano and Adam Dannhesiser.
Jackie's play, A STORY ABOUT A GIRL was part of Portland Center Stage's JAW Playwrights Festival, July, 2007 in Portland, Oregon. It was directed by Rose Riordan.
STRING FEVER was produced by Yellow Taxi Productions in Nashua, New Hampshire in October, 2007. Read about the production here.
A STORY ABOUT A GIRL received a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) grant.
2B (OR NOT 2B) was published in "Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays" from Vintage Books.
THINGS BETWEEN US, an evening of Jackie's one-acts (published by DPS), was produced at the Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA, in November '07.
2B (OR NOT 2B) and 2B (OR NOT TO BE) PART 2 will both be published in a Smith and Kraus ten-minute play anthology, edited by DL Lepidus.
STRING FEVER was part of the "Echo Dreams" readings series at the Echo Theatre in Dallas, Texas, in March, 2007.
A monologue from STRING FEVER was published by Applause Books in "The Best Women's Monologues of the Millennium" in late 2007.
Two other monologues from STRING FEVER will be published in DPS' "Outstanding Men's/Women's Monologues, Vol. 2," edited by Craig Pospisil.
GIRL GONE was produced in October, 2006, directed by Christopher Limber, at The NonProphet Theater Company in St. Louis.
JOE AND STEW'S THEATRE OF BROTHERLY LOVE AND FINANCIAL SUCCESS or: POZORIŠTE BRATSKE LJUBAVI I FINANSIJSKOG USPEHA DŽOA I STIVIJA was produced in May, 2006 at Theatre MKC System in Belgrade, Serbia.
Jackie returned to Ohio University for a few days in May '06 to be a mentor at the MFA Playwrights Festival.
STRING FEVER was produced in May, 2006 at the New Ground Theatre in Iowa.
A STORY ABOUT A GIRL, a new full length play, had its first workshop at the brand new Mallett Theatre at Purdue University in March-April, 2006, directed by Rich Rand. Many thanks to everyone at Purdue for their amazing work!
Jackie was in residence at Purdue University for the week of March 3rd, 2006, for the workshop of A STORY ABOUT A GIRL. She went to rehearsals, did rewrites, and taught some classes.
STRING FEVER was produced in late 2005 in Washington DC at the wonderful Theater J. Read the review in The Washington Post. Read a short feature about it in The Washington Post.
Congratulations to Steve Brady for his Helen Hayes Award Nomination for his role in STRING FEVER at Theater J in Washington DC.
THINGS BETWEEN US: SHORT PLAYS BY JACQUELYN REINGOLD was published by
There was a book party at
The Drama Bookshop in fall, 2005 to celebrate the publication of THINGS BETWEEN US.TUNNEL OF LOVE was produced in Hong Kong.
2B (OR NOT 2B) was produced in "Summer Shorts" by the Oasis Theatre Studio in Jacksonville, Florida in summer '05.
JOE'S AND STEW'S THEATRE OF BROTHERLY LOVE AND FINANCIAL SUCCESS was produced in November, 2005 in "Women Works V: A Festival of One-Acts" by the Sackett Group in Brooklyn, NY.
A monologue, THREE WORDS, was published in "New Monologues for Women by Women II" by Heinemann.
A monologue from A STORY ABOUT A GIRL was published in "Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20's" by Smith and Kraus.