Bio:
Lindsay Joelle is a NYC-based playwright, lyricist, and librettist. Her work has been produced at: Theater J (World premiere of Trayf, 2018), Penguin Rep (Trayf), Vital Theater (The Princess of Riverside Drive), TADA!, and developed at: The New Georges Jam, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Lark, The New School for Drama, Forward Flux, Luna Stage, and ESPA/Primary Stages, among others. She is the recipient of a 2018 NNPN Collaboration Grant with Curious Theatre and an EST/Sloan Commission for The Garbologists, as well as the Rita Goldberg Award for Graduate Playwriting, Irving Zarkower Award for best play of the year, Anne Freedman Grant, and 2017 Kilroys List Honorable Mention. Her plays have been finalists for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Special Recognition), Leah Ryan’s FEWW Emerging Playwright Prize (Honorable Mention), JAW Festival, Blue Ink Award, Ingram New Works Lab, UMass New Play Lab, and Jewish Plays Project. Alumna of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Columbia University (BA), Hunter (MFA).
Extended resume:
Theater (productions and development)
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TRAYF
Production (World Premiere - upcoming 2018) Production, 2017 2017 Blue Ink Award Finalist 2017 Ingram New Works Lab finalist 2016 Kilroys List Honorable Mention 2016 Rita Goldberg Award 2016 Jewish Plays Project Top 10 finalist 2016 Jaw Festival Finalist 2015 National Playwrights Conference Finalist Weissberger Award nomination Staged reading, MFA Playwrights Festival Staged reading, Words @ Work series Staged reading, Just Dessert series Staged reading Staged reading, New Moon series The Garbologists 2017/18 EST Sloan Commission 2018 NNPN Collaboration Grant 2017 Emerging Playwright Prize Finalist (w/Hon Mention) 2017 BRIClab Residency Finalist Staged Reading, Monday Night Specials Staged excerpt: Jamboree The Least Worst Place (or: The Trojan Woman) 2016 National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist 2015 Irving Zarkower Award, best new play of the year 2015 UMass New Play Lab Finalist 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayLab reading Roundtable reading Roundtable reading Staged reading, the Hunter Anne Freedman Grant Staged reading, co-produced with Addie Gorlin A Small History of Amal by Amal, Age 7 2017 BAPF Finalist (w/ Special Recognition) 2014 National Playwrights Conference Finalist Staged Reading, Flux Salon Staged Reading, Primary Stages: ESPA*Drills Workshop, The New School Directing MFA The Princess of Riverside Drive (Libretto) Full Production: Vital Theater PREP the Musical (Book and lyrics) 2012 National Music Theater Conference Top 34 West Village Musical Theatre Festival PREP in concert The Looking Glass (10 min. musical, Book and lyrics) West Village Musical Theatre Festival Short Attention Span Festival Duck to the Rescue (10 min. musical, Book and lyrics) USAC Festival SAT the Musical (10 min. musical, Book and lyrics) The Music Theater Company (Benefit) Year-end 10 Minute Musical Everything About a Family (Contributing lyricist) Full Production: TADA! Youth Theater Full Production: TADA! Youth Theater |
Dir. Derek Goldman Dir. Benjamin Kamine Dir. May Adrales Dir. Addie Gorlin Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. David Winitsky Dir. Ari Laura Krieth Dir. MJ Munafo Dir. Colette Robert Drtg. Megan Rivas Dir. May Adrales Dir. Jen Wineman Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. Addie Gorlin Dir. Samip Raval Dir. Lisa Peterson Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. Theresa Pond Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. Matt Bogdanow Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. Adam Fitzgerald Dir. Celine Rosenthal Dir. Jessica Redish Dir. Lindsay Joelle Dir. Joanna Greer Dir. Janine Nina Tremens |
Theater J, Washington DC Penguin Rep, Stony Point, NY American Blues Theater, IL Nashville Rep Kilroys List Hunter Playwriting MFA Jewish Plays Project Portland Stage The Eugene O'Neill Center Williamstown Theatre Festival Hunter/The Lowe Theater Sabes JCC, MN Penguin Rep, NY JCC of Northern Virginia Luna Stage, NJ Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY Curious Theatre Company, CO Leah Ryan's Fund for Emerging Women Writers BRIC Marthas Vineyard Playhouse The New Georges Jam The Eugene O'Neill Center Hunter College UMass/Amherst Great Plains Theatre Conference The Lark The Lark Manhattan Theatre Club studios The Playwrights' Center, MN Playwrights Foundation The Eugene O'Neill Center Forward Flux, Seattle ,WA The Duke on 42nd The New School for Drama The McGinn/Cazale Theatre The Eugene O'Neill Center The Wings Theater (now New Ohio) Pete's Candy Store 13th St. Repertory Theater Players Theater Center Stage, NY The Laurie Beechman Theatre The Lehman Engel BMI Workshop TADA! Youth Theater TADA! Youth Theater |
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)
Primary Stages/ESPA, NY
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2014-2016
2001-2005 2012-2014 2006-2008 |
Membership and Misc.
New Georges Jam (2016-18), New Georges affiliated artist, Lark affiliated artist, Primary Stages/ESPA "Shop" Observership, The American Theatre Wing: SpringboardNYC, 2nd place in the American Theatre Wing essay contest "The Play that Changed My Life," 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference, Dramatists Guild.
