The Feast of the Flying Cow... and Other Stories of War: Playwright

Jeni Mahoney

Biography

Jeni’s play The Feast of the Flying Cow... and Other Stories of War was work-shopped at the National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Center and received its world premiere at InterAct Theater in Philadelphia. These and other plays, including The Martyrdom of Washington Booth, Mercy Falls, Light and Bad Water Juju, have been variously presented at the Midwestern Theater Festival (Chicago), L.A. Theater Center, Lark Theater's Playwrights Week, Rattlestick Productions, NYU’s hotINK Festival, Chicago Womens Theater Alliance, and Village Rep (among others).

Her one acts Throw of the Moon and American Eyes were commissioned and produced by Gorilla Rep, and can be found in Plays and Playwrights 2001, edited by Martin Denton. In 2006, she adapted Margaret Ayer Barnes’ dramatization of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE for New York’s Mint Theater Company.

She is the recipient of an Independent Artists Challenge Grant from Field and a Woolrich Postgraduate Fellowship from Columbia University. Excerpts from her plays can be found in numerous monologue and scene books. Jeni is co-Artistic Director of id Theatre Company, and Artistic Director of Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, which has developed more than 50 new plays since its inception. The Conference is featured as one of 18 major play development programs in Michael Wright’s Playwriting: At Work and Play and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

Currently Jeni teaches playwriting for New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts through Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Jeni has an M.F.A. from Ohio University and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.