Bio:
Lindsay Joelle is a playwright, lyricist, and librettist. Plays include TRAYF (Theater J, Penguin Rep), THE GARBOLOGISTS, A SMALL HISTORY OF AMAL, AGE 7 (Forward Flux/Pratidhwani) and THE PRINCESS OF RIVERSIDE DRIVE (libretto, Vital Theater). She has received an Audible Emerging Playwright Commission, EST/Sloan Commission, NNPN Collaboration Grant with Curious Theatre, Rita Goldberg Award for Graduate Playwriting, and has developed work at PlayPenn, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and the Lark. Member of Nashville Rep’s Ingram New Works Lab and the New Georges Jam. Alumna of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Columbia University (BA), and Hunter (MFA) where she studied under the mentorship of playwrights Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit, and Samuel D. Hunter.
Extended resume:
Theater (productions and development)
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TRAYF
Production, 2019 (upcoming) Production, 2018 (Premiere, NEA grant recipient) Production, 2017 Staged reading, MFA Playwrights Festival Staged reading Staged reading Staged reading, Words @ Work series Staged reading, Just Dessert series Staged reading Staged reading, New Moon series 2017 Blue Ink Award Finalist 2017 Ingram New Works Lab Finalist 2016 Kilroys List Honorable Mention 2016 Rita Goldberg Award for Graduate Playwriting 2016 Jewish Plays Project Top 10 Finalist 2016 Jaw Festival Finalist 2015 National Playwrights Conference Finalist The Garbologists Staged Reading, PlayPenn New Play Conference Staged Reading, Rough Reading Series (upcoming) Staged Reading, Momentum Festival (upcoming) Staged Reading, Monday Night Specials Staged Reading (NNPN grant) 2017/18 EST Sloan Grant 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist 2019 SPACE Creative Residency Finalist 2019 ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest Quarterfinalist 2017 Emerging Playwright Prize Finalist (w/ hon. mention) 2017 BRIClab Residency Finalist A Small History of Amal, Age 7 Production Staged Reading, Flux Salon Staged Reading, Primary Stages: ESPA*Drills Workshop, The New School Directing MFA 2017 BAPF Finalist (w/ special recognition) 2014 National Playwrights Conference Finalist The Trojan Woman 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayLab reading 2015 Irving Zarkower Award, Best New Play of the Year 2015 UMass New Play Lab Finalist The Princess of Riverside Drive (Libretto) Production Everything About a Family (Contributing lyricist) Full Production: TADA! Youth Theater Full Production: TADA! Youth Theater PREP the Musical (Book and lyrics) West Village Musical Theatre Festival PREP in concert 2012 National Music Theater Conference Finalist (Top 34) |
Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. Derek Goldman Dir. Benjamin Kamine Dir. May Adrales Dir. Deborah Baer Mozes Dir. Adam Lenson Dir. Addie Gorlin Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. David Winitsky Dir. Ari Laura Krieth Dir. Kimberly Senior Dir. Jessica Bird Dir. Tome Cousin Dir. MJ Munafo Dir. Chip Walton Dir. Samip Raval Dir. Samip Raval Dir. Lisa Peterson Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. Theresa Pond Dir. Joanna Greer Dir. Janine Nina Tremens Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. Matt Bogdanow |
New Rep Theatre, MA Theater J, Washington, D.C. Penguin Rep, Stony Point, NY Hunter/The Lowe Theater Theatre Ariel, PA JW3, London, UK Sabes JCC, MN Penguin Rep, NY JCC of Northern Virginia Luna Stage, NJ American Blues Theater, Chicago, IL Nashville Repertory Theatre, Nashville, TN Kilroys List Hunter Playwriting MFA Jewish Plays Project Portland Stage The Eugene O'Neill Center PlayPenn, PA Playwrights Foundation, CA City Theatre, PA Marthas Vineyard Playhouse, MA Curious Theater, CO Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY Playwrights Foundation, CA SPACE on Ryder Farm, NY ScreenCraft, CA Leah Ryan's Fund for Emerging Women Writers BRIC, NY Forward Flux & Pratidhwani, Seattle, WA Forward Flux, Seattle The Duke on 42nd The New School for Drama Playwrights Foundation The Eugene O'Neill Center Great Plains Theatre Conference Hunter College MFA UMass/Amherst Vital Theater, NY TADA! Youth Theater, NY TADA! Youth Theater, NY The Wings Theater, NY Pete's Candy Store The Eugene O'Neill Center |
Film and Animation
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Wonder Cabinets
Co-written with Sylvia Khoury LGBTQ on Campus Animated Inclusivity Training for Educators Step In, Speak Up! Animated Safe Space Training for Educators At Risk for Middle School Educators Animated Suicide Prevention Training Diabetes Education Animated Diabetes Self-Care for Veterans |
Dir. Andrew Robinson, Pitr Strait, Celine Rosenthal The Trevor Project and Campus Pride The Arizona Dept. of Health Services Mental Health America of Texas The Veterans Healthcare Network |
Parsons the New School for Design Kognito Interactive Kognito Interactive Kognito Interactive Kognito Interactive |
Education
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Hunter College, NY (MFA in Playwriting: Arthur Kopit, Tina Howe, John Baker, Samuel D. Hunter)
Columbia University, NY (BA in English) The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, NY (Lyricist) |
2014-2016
2001-2005 2006-2008 |
Membership
- 2018-19 Ingram New Works Lab Playwright at Nashville Repertory Theatre
- 2017-18 NNPN Collaboration Grant/Writer-in-Residence with Curious Theatre Company
- The New Georges Jam Writer/Director Lab
- Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab Finalist (w/Elena Araoz, 2017)
- The American Theatre Wing: SpringboardNYC alum
- British American Drama Academy (BADA) alum
- The Dramatists Guild
- 2017-18 NNPN Collaboration Grant/Writer-in-Residence with Curious Theatre Company
- The New Georges Jam Writer/Director Lab
- Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab Finalist (w/Elena Araoz, 2017)
- The American Theatre Wing: SpringboardNYC alum
- British American Drama Academy (BADA) alum
- The Dramatists Guild
