Jennifer Haley is a Los Angeles-based playwright whose work has appeared around the country, most recently at the Lark Play Development Center in New York and the The O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, where she workshopped her play The Nether. This year she also developed Froggy at the Sundance Theatre Lab, The Banff Centre and American Conservatory Theater.
Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom was produced at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New American Plays in 2008 and has seen continuing productions at theaters, colleges and high schools nation-wide. The play is published by Samuel French and Playscripts, Inc. Breadcrumbs saw its world premiere at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in July 2010 and was named a Highlight of 2011 in LA Theater by the LA Stage times.
Jennifer was awarded a citation for the 2009 American Theatre Critic's Association (ATCA) Francesca Primus Prize, and 2008 fellowships from the MacDowell and Millay artist colonies. She earned an MFA in playwriting at Brown University, where she studied playwriting with Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive), screenwriting with Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary), and won the Weston Award for Drama and the Joelson Prize in Creative Writing.
In 2009 Jennifer founded The Playwrights Union, a network of theater artists in Los Angeles writing for stage, tv and film.