Jennie Webb is an independent writer, dramaturg and playwright whose work has earned her support from the Playwrights Center’s PlayLabs, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Rogue Machine Theatre, EST/LA, Theatre of NOTE, Company of Angels, Santa Monica Rep, Inkwell Theater, The Blank Theatre, Open Fist Theatre Company, The Road Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival, Kayenta New Play Lab, Little Black Dress INK, Virginia Avenue Project, Clamour Theatre Company, National Winter Playwrights Retreat, PlayGround, Moving Arts MADlab, Rogue Artists Ensemble’s inaugural Rogue Lab and The Road’s Under Construction 1, among other organizations and programs. She describes her playwriting style as “Domestic Absurdism.” (See Plays.)
Jennie is a recipient of a Women in Theatre Red Carpet Award for her advocacy and support of emerging writers and female artists and a two-time Max K. Lerner Playwriting Fellow; she has been a finalist for the O’Neill Theatre Conference, Gulfshore Playhouse, Utah Shakespeare Festival Words Cubed and City Theatre National Short Play Awards and has received numerous semi-finalist nods (from O’Neill, PlayPenn, Athena Project, Trustus Theatre Festival and others). She created and ran the new play development program at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum, Botanicum Seedlings; co-created Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA: the Ignite Project; and is currently a member of the Playwrights Union, EST/LA, TCT Writers Lab, Honor Roll!, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and the Dramatists Guild. She is co-founder and editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LAFPI).
Jennie is a guest lecturer at colleges and universities across the country, works as a professional dramaturg and runs private workshops for playwrights. She is currently an Artistic Advisor for Hechale Productions, in Mexico City.
She has published numerous articles on a broad range of subjects in newspapers including The Los Angeles Times, national magazines and entertainment journals, and columns for a lifestyle glossy and alternative Southern California weeklies. For a number of years, she worked as an arts writer and theater critic, most recently for Backstage and KCRW-FM, Southern California’s premier NPR affiliate. She has also written a variety of web content, e-learning courses, brochures, newsletters, marketing collateral and print materials for major corporate clients as well as start-up companies.
She lives in Northeast Los Angeles with housecats Molly & Mick.
So lovely to keep in touch with Canvas Rebel – Many Thanks for this Feature!
I still love this sweet profile written for Indie Theater Now by my friend and colleague, the late Henry Murray.
