Jenny Lane

JENNIFER LANE is a California-based playwright, novelist and teaching artist originally hailing from Detroit, Michigan. She is the Playwright in Residence at the Scripps Ranch Theatre, and the co-moderator of their New Works Studio. Her work has been presented at or developed by the terraNOVA Collective, the Gulfshore Playhouse, Sightline Theatre Company, Artistic New Directions, IRT, The Bridge Theatre Company, the New Ohio Theatre, 3LD Art & Technology Center, the Gene Frankel Theatre, Theatre 54, Manhattan Shakespeare Theatre, The Washington Rogues, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Columbia Stages, LiveGirls! Theatre, Mission to (dit)Mars, NYCPlaywrights, The Actors Theatre of Charlotte, The Culture Project, the Inkwell Theatre, and Scripps Ranch Theatre.

Jenny is a graduate of Columbia University — where she was taught by such remarkable artists as Chuck Mee, Anne Bogart, Lucy Thurber, Sheila Callaghan and Kelly Stuart — and Sarah Lawrence College. She is an alum of the terraNOVA Collective Groundbreakers Playwriting Group and the Mission to (dit)Mars Playwriting Group. Currently, Jenny is a teaching artist with the Playwrights Project, San Diego Writers, Ink, and UCSD Extension. Her dramatic writing is represented by Amy Wagner of Abrams Artists Agency in New York City.