Jennifer Blackmer

Playwright

Program:
National Showcase of New Plays

Jennifer Blackmer’s plays have been produced off-Broadway and across the country, and include Human Terrain, Unraveled, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace (Joseph Jefferson award for Best Adaptation), Delicate Particle Logic, Borrowed Babies and Predictor. Jennifer was the recipient of the 2015 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award for Emerging American Playwright, and her screenplay for Human Terrain won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award through the Tribeca Film Institute and was a finalist for the Sundance Sloan Prize. Jennifer is a two-time O’Neill finalist, her writing has been short-listed for the Princess Grace Award and the Shakespeare’s Sister Fellowship, and has been developed by Seven Devils, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Nashville Repertory Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, The Lark and Activate Midwest. She serves as Professor of Theatre and Director of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University. www.jenniferblackmer.com