AHOY-HOY
by Jenny Stafford

Jenny Stafford is an award-winning playwright, bookwriter, and lyricist whose works have been heard on Broadway and beyond. Her work has been featured at Lincoln Center, Cirque du Soleil, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Dancing with the Stars, and other regional and international venues. Awards include the Reva Shiner Comedy Award, the Paulette Goddard Award, and the Capital Repertory New Works Award. Three-time finalist status for the Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, and a finalist for the McKnight Fellowship, the PEN Writing for Justice Fellowship, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, and the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference and Playwriting Conference. Nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Artist in Residence at the Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat, Goodspeed Musicals, Johnny Mercer Writers Colony. Dramatists Guild member; MFA NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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Celine is a Tony®-nominated producer, “Key” in The Ring Of Keys and New Georges Affiliate Artist. At Urbanite they had the pleasure of directing JENNIFER, WHO IS LEAVING. At Asolo Rep: DIAL M FOR MURDER, GRAND HORIZONS, THE INCIDENT AT OUR LADY..., THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT, and CAMELOT, among others.  

Recent Projects: DIAL M FOR MURDER (Pittsburgh Public Theatre) QUEEN OF WANDS (Union Theatre, London), WHEN WE WHERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID, ANGEL STREET, IN THE NEXT ROOM,(Studio Theatre); TRAYF (New Rep); DROWNING IN CAIRO (N.Q.T); the Award Winning short film WILDFLOWER and upcoming films GETTING OFF and MUSINGS, and workshops of ONEIDA by Beth Blatt (Seven Dials, London), ADVENTURE OF LIFE by Veronika Duerr (Warehouse Theatre, SC & Chisenhale Dance, London), DALLOWAY by Lindsay Joelle (PlayLab, Florida Rep), and MY FAVORITE SOCIOPATH by Aurin Squire (SCNPF & New Dramatists).