Jennifer Fawcett is a novelist, playwright, and founding member of Working Group Theatre. She is the winner of the 2015 NNPN Smith Prize for Political Theatre and the 2017 Susan Glaspell Award (APPLES IN WINTER), the 2014 NEFA National Theatre Project Award (with Working Group for OUT OF BOUNDS), the Kennedy Center's National Science Playwriting Award (ATLAS OF MUD), and was nominated for the ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award (BIRTH WITCHES).
Her plays have been produced at Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis), the Source Festival (Washington, DC), Riverside Theatre (Iowa City), Centenary Stage Company (Hackettstown, NJ), Urbanite Theatre (Sarasota), Available Light Theatre (Columbus), Uprising Theatre Company (Minneapolis), Tennessee Women’s Theatre Project (Nashville), The Drilling Company (New York), the Adirondack Theatre Festival (Glens Falls, NY), Alcyone Festival (Chicago), Theatre Masters (Aspen/West Palm Beach), the Hatchery Festival (Washington, DC) and developed at Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor Residency, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Inkwell, the Lark Playwrights' Week, Little Festival of the Unexpected (Portland Stage Co), Cultural Conversations (Penn State) and the NNPN MFA Workshop at the Kennedy Center. She was the NNPN Emerging-Playwright-In-Residence at Curious Theatre Company in Denver and is a graduate of the University of Iowa MFA Playwrights Workshop. Her debut novel, BENEATH THE STAIRS, was released by Atria Books (Simon & Schuster) in February 2022 and has been optioned for television.