Playwright, TV Writer, Teacher, Advocate
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Jackie's play Fear Less, a 2025 O'Neill finalist, had a workshopped reading at Ensemble Studio Theater, November 2025, directed by Tamilla Woodard.
Jackie's short play Luggage won "Audience Favorite" at the Hollywood Short & Sweet Festival, was produced by Winged Monkeys, Hudson, NY. And had NYC readings at The Tent and EST.
Jackie taught TV Pilot Writing in the MFA program, Stony Brook Manhattan, fall 2025.
Jackie was a playwriting mentor for the Red Moon New Play Festival, Apex Theater Studio, Jacksonville Florida, May 2025.
Jackie taught a 3-hour TV writing workshop for New Dramatists playwrights, May 2025, NYC.
Kiss Me Somewhere Else had a Tent Theater reading, directed by Melia Bensussen with Christopher Bannow, Jonathan Hadary, Jayne Houdyshell, Alison Pill. February 2025, NYC.
A Story About a Girl reading, Axial Theater, directed by Cady McClain, March, 2025.
Like Miriam, produced by Axial Theater, NY, 2025.
Fear Less, commissioned by EST/Sloan Foundation first read in EST's First Light Festival, 2024.
Yaddo residency, 2024.
Luggage a short play for Andrea Syglowski and Evan Handler, was read at New Dramatists.
String Fever was written about, and quoted in, an article in American Theatre.
Teaching residency, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville, FL.
Jacquelyn received a 2023 Lilly Award, presented by Evan Handler, for her playwriting and her advocacy. Read more here.
Jacquelyn wrote for 24 Hour Plays Broadway, 2023, honoring Warren Leight. She “drafted” this incredible cast: Nadia Dajani, Seth Gilliam, David Krumholtz, T.R. Knight, and Alison Pill, then stayed up all night writing. Next day, Ivey Lowe directed the play, Missing Parts. She will never do this again. Unless she’s asked. Read more here.
