CRT Dramaturgy

Jen Silverman is an alumna of Brown, Julliard, and the Iowa Playwright's Workshop. She is a two-time MacDowell Fellow and the 2016-2017 Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellow. Her work has been produced at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Yale Repertory Theatre, Everyman Theatre, and Wooly Mammoth, and developed at the O’Neill, Williamstown, New York Theatre Workshop, and elsewhere. She identifies common goals of her work as “a sense of theatricality,” “an interest in putting women onstage, particularly queer women,” and “conversations about power and visibility.” Her female characters challenge the limited representations of women still common in the theatre: “I’m interested in women that ‘behave badly,’” she says. “Women who as characters are hungry and ambitious and complicated and change their minds about things and sacrifice to get that thing.”

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