Jennifer Fawcett

Lecturer

B.F.A. Ryerson University, Canada
M.F.A. University of Iowa

Office: Palamountain 323
Phone: (518) 580-5193
Email: jfawcett@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests: 

• Playwriting
• Composition Writing
• Documentary and Devised Theatre
• Contemporary Drama

Courses Taught:

• EN 105: Arguments from the Stage
• EN 105: Mean Girls: The Role of Unlikeable Female Characters

Publications:

• “The Prisoner,” short play in Long Story Short, Playwrights Canada Press, 2016
• “Crossing the Value Border: Doing Theatre in Non-Traditional Communities,” essay in 2014 National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art/People} Blog, Theatre Communications Group
• “The Invaders,” full-length play in the midnight sky and the silent stars: Five New Plays by Women, No Passport Press, 2011
• “The Toymaker’s War,” full-length play in Cultural Conversations: Works in Progress – Writers in the Making, Eifrig Publishing, 2011
• “The Echo,” short play in Third Coast Literary Magazine, 2011 

Selected Productions:

• Apples in Winter, Urbanite Theatre (Florida), 2019
• Apples in Winter, Something Something Theatre Company/Tucson Labyrinth Project co-production (Arizona), 2019
• Apples in Winter, National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at Riverside Theatre (Iowa), Centenary Stage Company (New Jersey), Phoenix Theatre (Indiana), 2018-2019
• Buried Cities, Source Festival (Washington, DC), 2016
• Out of Bounds, National Tours (selected venues): Tilles Center, Long Island University Post; Smith Center of the Performing Arts, Las Vegas; Numerica PAC, Washington; WYO Theatre, Wyoming; Vilar Center for the Arts, Colorado; PACE Center, Colorado; North Shore Center for Performing Arts, Illinois; New Jersey Performing Arts Center; Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, New York; Lied Center of Kansas
• The Broken Chord, Hancher/University of Iowa, 2013
• Birth Witches, Riverside Theatre/Cornell College co-production (Iowa), 2013

Residencies and Fellowships:

• Banff Playwrights Colony, 2016
• Berkeley Repertory Theatre Summer Residency Lab, 2015
• National New Play Network/Kennedy Center MFA Workshop, 2008 and 2012
• National New Play Network Playwright-in-Residence, Curious Theatre Company, Denver 2008-2009

Awards:

• Susan Glaspell Award, Apples in Winter, 2018
• NNPN Smith Prize for Political Theatre, Apples in Winter, 2015
• New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) National Theatre Project Award, Out of Bounds, 2014 (with Working Group Theatre)
• Humanities Iowa, National Endowment of the Humanities, Telling: Iowa City, 2011 (with Working Group Theatre)
• Kennedy Center National Science Playwriting Award, Atlas of Mud, 2008
• Theatre Masters National MFA Playwriting Award, The Echo, 2008