Bio:
Lindsay Joelle is a playwright, lyricist, and librettist. Plays include TRAYF (Theater J world premiere, Penguin Rep), THE GARBOLOGISTS (EST/Sloan Commission), A SMALL HISTORY OF AMAL, AGE 7 (Forward Flux) and THE PRINCESS OF RIVERSIDE DRIVE (libretto, Vital Theater). She is the 2018 NNPN writer-in-residence at Curious Theatre and received the Rita Goldberg Award for Graduate Playwriting, Irving Zarkower Award, Anne Freedman Grant, and a Kilroys List Honorable Mention. Her work has been developed at: PlayPenn New Play Development Conference, The Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Lark, The New Georges Jam, Luna Stage, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, ESPA/Primary Stages, and have been finalists for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Special Recognition), Leah Ryan’s FEWW (Honorable Mention), JAW Festival, Jewish Plays Project, Blue Ink Award, Ingram New Works Lab, UMass New Play Lab, and Soho Rep Lab. New Georges affiliated artist, alumna of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Columbia University (BA), and Hunter (MFA) where she studied under the mentorship of Tina Howe, Arthur Kopit and Samuel D. Hunter.
Extended resume:
Theater (productions and development)
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TRAYF
Production (World Premiere - June 2018) *2018 NEA Grant recipient* 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 2017 Emerging Playwright Prize Finalist 2017 BRIClab Residency Finalist Staged Reading, First Light Festival (upcoming 2018) 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 Anne Freedman Grant Staged reading, co-produced with Addie Gorlin A Small History of Amal, Age 7 Production (upcoming, fall 2018) 2017 BAPF Finalist (w/ Special Recognition) 2014 National Playwrights Conference Finalist Staged Reading, Primary Stages: ESPA*Drills Staged Reading, Flux Salon Workshop, The New School Directing MFA The Princess of Riverside Drive (Libretto) 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. Samip Raval 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 Leah Ryan's Fund for Emerging Women Writers BRIC Ensemble Studio Theatre 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 Forward Flux, Seattle Playwrights Foundation The Eugene O'Neill Center The Duke on 42nd Forward Flux, Seattle ,WA 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 (Advanced Playwriting) The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, NY (Lyricist) |
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.