Jeni Mahoney
Theater Things
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Producing Artistic Director, Seven Devil’s New Play Foundry
Founding Artistic Director Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
co-Founder, 4 Seasons Residency for Playwrights
Associate Director, PT PlayFest, Key City Public Theater
Curator, hotINK Festival of New Plays, New York University
Associate Director, Mint Theater Company
Tour Consultant, National Auditions for Graduate School (U/RTA)
Associate Director, University/Resident Theatre Association (U/RTA)
Associate Producer, Music-Theater Group, New York
Associate Producer, THREE OF HEARTS by Mary Rodgers (w/ Faith Prince), Rainbow and Stars, New York
Associate Producer, cast recording of Julie Taymor’s JUAN DARIEN, music and lyrics by Elliot Goldenthal
Producing Assistant, YOU DON’T MISS YOUR WATER by Cornelius Eady and Diedre Murray, Aaron Davis Hall, New York
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Guest Judge, Chicago Dramatists New Play Workshop and Reading
Guest Artist/Mentor, Hollins College, MFA Playwrights Festival, Roanoke, VA
Panelist, Best Practices in New Play Development, Stratera Conference, Denver, CO (Panel later became the basis for a Howlround article)
Guest Speaker, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs Association, Case Studies and Conversation Seminar Series, Tis the Season for Script Reading! Best Practices for Freelance Script Readers working in New Play Development, Digital Seminar
Panelist, Ethics & Values in New Play Development, National New Play Lab, Steamboat Springs, CO
Panelist, Dramatists Guild Toolbox Workshop on Artistic Statements and Synopses at Boston Playwrights Theater
Guest Judge, Famous for Fifteen Minutes New Play Contest, Bermuda Musical & Dramatic Society, Hamilton, Bermuda
Guest Speaker, Salon Seminar: Directing New Plays, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, Seattle, WA
Panelist, What’s Next? New Developments in Development, NNPN 15th Anniversary/ Playwrights Weekend, InterAct Theater, Philadelphia
Guest Artist/Mentor - 2010 Seabury Quinn, Jr. Playwriting Festival, Ohio University, Athens
Lead Panelist, Playwrights in Charge, Dramatists Guild National Conference, Chicago, IL
Panelist - Dramatists Guild seminar on the “Art of the Synopsis,” NYC
Guest Artist Workshop - Playwriting Workshop, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
Guest Artist - SUNY - New Paltz, Playwrights Intensive at the Actors Institute
Selected as one of 100 national leaders in new play development to participate in the inaugural convening of the National New Play Institute at Arena Stage, Washington, DC
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For more information on individual plays, including production history, cast breakdowns and photos, visit the Plays page.
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Hold Steady by Tira Palmquist, 2019 PT PlayFest, Key City Public Theater (Port Townsent, WA)
Needles and Pins by D.D. Wigley, 2019 Key City Public Theater (Port Townsent, WA)
The Dizziness of Freedom, Stephen Nelson with Mike Ferrell and Laura Spence, Durango Playwrights Festival
How to Hide Your Monster by Heidi Kraay, National Winter Playwrights Workshop (Creede, CO)
War Stories by Richard Dresser for Key City Public Theater's PlayFest 2016 (Port Townsend, WA)
Escorting Tom by Duane Kelly for Key City Public Theater's PlayFest 2016 (Port Townsend, WA)
Optimism Or... by A.P. Andrews for Key City Public Theater's PlayFest 2015 (Port Townsend, WA)
CrazySkinnySmall by Sylvie Mae Baldwin for Key City Public Theater's PlayFest 2015 (Port Townsend, WA)
The Garden of Monsters by Mara Lathrop – id’s Sit In NYC! series, Jimmy's No. 43
id-IOTS AT PLAY!, id’s Sit In NYC! series at Jimmy’s No. 43
Imaging Brad by Peter Hedges, Aegean Theater Company at the Mint Theatre
The River by Ron Fitzgerald, Columbia University MFA Playwright Thesis Presentation at New Dramatists, NY
Shoe Are Made for Walking by Ben Sahl - Columbia Dramatists at St. Michael's
The Four Horsemen by Greg Paul (Assistant/Fight Director), Tiny Mythic Directing Cabaret/HERE
Director/Mentor for new work by students through Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and Boston Playwrights Theater
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Dramaturg/Mentor, Pipeline Writers Retreats, Cadence Theatre (Richmond and Roanoke, VA)
co-Dramaturg/Mentor, with Bob Bartlett, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Intensive Company
Memoirs of a Forgotten Man by D.W. Gregory (National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Creede, CO)
Representative dramaturgy assignments for Seven Devils Playwrights Conference:
The Refrigerator by Keiko Green
The Making of a Modern Folk Hero by Martin Zimmerman
A Slaying Song Tonight by John Olive
Blackout by Evan Sesek
Four Beers by David Van Vleck
A Little Time in the Fall by Berni Cockey
Curator, The Seven Devils Playwrights Conference Digital Collection on IndieTheaterNow.com
Script Consultant,Spirit Awakening by Akuyoe Graham
Reader, Joseph Papp Public Theater
Reader & Mentor, Young Playwrights Festival
Associate Editor, Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company (Granville Press)
Freelance Dramaturgy & Script Consultation
See id Theater's Development Page for full list of plays developed at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
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CURRENT: Co-Instructor, Stonecoast/ University of Southern Maine: low-residency Creative Writing MFA (Script Writing, Dialogue) with Tom Coash
Instructor, Einhorn School for Performing Arts/Primary Stages online (The First Draft and Rewrite)
Guest Instructor, Franklin Pierce University (Theater 101)
Head of Playwriting Program - Playwrights Horizons Theater School /New York University Tisch School for the Arts, Undergraduate Drama (Playwriting I, Advanced Seminar, Playwright/Director Collaboration)
Instructor -Rattlestick Playwrights Theater School (Playwriting)
Evaluator - College Program Assessment, Playwriting BFA Program, SUNY New Paltz
Instructor - Playwrights Horizons Adult Education Program (Playwrighting I, II & Lab)
Instructor -Ohio University (Acting 101 for majors and non-majors)
Mentor - Playwrights Horizons Theater School (Directing Project Mentor)
Instructor - Playwrights Horizons Theater School (Acting I & Movement II)
Teaching Artist, Spirit Awakening Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (writing program for at risk young women in public schools & juvenile detention centers in LA County)
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I Don’t Know How She Navigates the Long Haul of Freelancing, Caregiving, and Disability, June 2026
Rules of Engagement for New Play Development co-written with Tira Palmquist, Christy Montour-Larson & Heather Helinsky, HowlRound Theatre Commons
The Horton Lens,HowlRound Theatre Commons
Idaho Matters, Boise State Public Radio
Writers Talk About Things OTHER Than Writing: an interview with Kara Lee Corthron
SportsBeat by Muffy Chase, Howlround Theatre Commons
People Who Make it Happen: an interview with Cecilia Copeland of NYMadness
The Juggler: an interview with Patrick Gabridge on The Writing Life x3
Seven Devils: an interview with Gary Garrison, The Dramatist Magazine, January/February 2010
Playwriting Conferences: an interview with Jacob Coakley for TheaterFace online magazine
Synopsis Seminar,The Dramatists Magazine: excerpts from Panel Presentation
Synopsis Writing, The Dramatists Guild Resource Directory, 2010
Synopsis Writing, The Dramatists Guild Resource Directory, 2009
id’s About Making Better Theater, The Loop Online Playwrights Magazine (2008)
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Light (Concord Theatricals), also included in Great Short Plays 6 Collection
Light in Best Short American Plays 2007-2008 (Applause)
Running in Circles Screaming in Best Short American Plays 2006-2007 (Applause)
Come Rain or Come Shine in Best Short American Plays 2005-2006 (Applause)
American Eyes in Plays & Playwrights 1999 (NYTheatre Experience)
Throw of the Moon in Plays & Playwrights 1999 (NYTheatre Experience)
Light in the textbook Reading, Reacting, Writing (Cengage Learning Inc.)
Happy Birthday Abby in Award Winning Comic Scenes Ages 13-18 (Smith & Kraus)
Mercy Falls - two monologues in Audition Arsenal (Smith & Kraus)
The Martyrdom of Washington Booth in Best Monologues for Men, 1999 –(Smith & Kraus)
The Feast of the Flying Cow… and Other Stories of War in Best Monologues for Men, 1999 (Smith & Kraus)
Mercy Falls in Best Monologues for Women, 1999 (Smith & Kraus)
Mercy Falls in Best Stage Scenes, 1999 (Smith & Kraus)
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Write, Pose and Ponder: Cadence Hosts Second Pipeline Writer’s Retreat by Liv Wilson
Seven Devils, Where the Play Development’s So Bright the Writers Gotta Wear Shadesby Patrick Gabridge, American Theatre
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference Artistic Director, Jeni Mahoney, Announces Departure, BroadwayWorld
The Playwrights of Seven Devils, Idaho Statesman
Development Havens by Mark Krause, The Dramatist Magazine
The Play’s the Thing in McCall, Idaho Statesman
Room to Grow, Stage Directions Magazine
The Devil’s in the Details, Idaho Arts Quarterly
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, McCall Magazine, Summer
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Finalist, 2023 The Gary Garrison Playwriting Award for 10-Minute Plays
Finalist for the 2019 Otis L. Guernsey New Voices Award, Inge Festival
C1 PlayLab Fellow, Company One
Secretary, Board of Trustees, National Theatre Conference
Kilroy List, Honorable Mention (2015 & 2014)
2014 Person of the Year, IndieTheaterNow.com
Inducted into Indie Theater Hall of Fame
Cited in the The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 (pub. 2021)
Founding Member, id-iots at Play
National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
Woolrich Postgraduate Writing Fellow, Columbia University
Independent Artists Challenge Grant, The Field
Primary Stages Bug n’ Bub Award, Runner-up
With Mint Theater: 2002 Drama Desk Award (preserving and presenting little-known classics)and 2001
OBIE Award (for keeping us up to date on a hundred years ago)
Juggernaut Theater ArtsGym Writers Lab, New York
Echo Theater Company Playwrights Lab, Los Angeles
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Playwrights Company
New York Play Development Lab
Expanded Arts Playwrights Lab
Member, Dramatist Guild of America
Digital Media & Design / Animation History / Misc. Stuff I Do
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Vice President of Digital Media and Historian, Fleischer Studios, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Consultant/Interviewee, CARTOONING AMERICA, a 6-part documentary series, director Asaf Galay (Recipient of the 2024 Library of Congress/Ken Burns Prize for Film)
Consultant/Interviewee, BETTY BOOP FOREVER, a documentary film by director Claire Duget for Arte Television (Germany, France, Belguim), Beirut International Film Festival, International Festival of Films on Art, Kingston Canadian Film Festival
Video Editor, Living Legacies Series, National Theater Conference
Script Writer (digital media created for educational packages), ProMedia Global, Inc.,
New York, NYScreenwriter, FAMILY BELONGINGS (commission), feature-length film, produced by Stella Productions, Los Angeles, CA
Script Writer (various assignments creating content for educational packages) MacMillan McGraw Hill, New York, NY
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