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Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Jenny Schwartz. Photo by Zack DeZon.

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Todd Almond. Photo by Zack DeZon.

Jenny Schwartz

Jenny Schwartz’s (Playwrightplays include God’s Ear, Somewhere Fun, Cause for Alarm, and 41-derful.  Jenny directed 41-derful for Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks 2014. Somewhere Fun premiered at the Vineyard Theatre in 2013, directed by Anne Kauffman.  God’s Ear was produced in New York by New Georges and the Vineyard Theatre, also directed by Anne Kauffman.  God's Ear has been produced nationally and internationally from Lisbon, Portugal to Boise, Idaho to Sydney, Australia.  With Todd Almond, Jenny was the 2012 recipient of the Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theatre to support the development of Iowa at New Dramatists.  Iowa was also developed at Sundance Theatre Institute Theatre Lab at Mass / MoCA. Other awards and honors include the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin H. Danks Award in Drama, a Kesselring honor, two grants from Lincoln Center’s Lecomte Du Nuoy Foundation, and Soho Rep’s Dorothy Streslin Playwriting Fellowship. God's Ear and Somewhere Fun were both finalists for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.  Jenny chairs the Soho Rep Writer / Director Lab with Ken Rus Schmoll and teaches playwriting at Playwright’s Horizons Theatre School / NYU Tisch. She received an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University, is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program, is a member of both The Clubbed Thumb Writers Group and New Dramatists.   

Todd Almond

Playwrights: Iowa (music and lyrics), Stage Kiss (performer). Todd wrote and starred in The Tempest, The Odyssey, and The Winter's Tale all for The Public. As a composer and orchestrator, Almond has written and arranged music for Noises Off! on Broadway, Fucking A at Signature, and How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Lincoln Center Theater, Kelli O’Hara Live at Carnegie Hall, and the recent film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Again. As a playwright, Almond’s musical Girlfriend, based on Matthew Sweet’s album of the same name, continues to have productions around the country, as does his musical Melancholy Play, written with Sarah Ruhl. Other New York acting credits include Girl from the North Country on Broadway and at The Public, People are Wrong at the Vineyard, Piece of Meat opposite Sherie Rene Scott, and "Law and Order: SVU."  As a musical director, Almond tours with Laura Benanti and Judy Kuhn, and recently made his PBS debut with Andrew Rannells, Live From Lincoln Center.

Todd Almond

Playwrights: Iowa (music and lyrics), Stage Kiss (performer). Todd wrote and starred in The Tempest, The Odyssey, and The Winter's Tale all for The Public. As a composer and orchestrator, Almond has written and arranged music for Noises Off! on Broadway, Fucking A at Signature, and How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Lincoln Center Theater, Kelli O’Hara Live at Carnegie Hall, and the recent film adaptation of Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello Again. As a playwright, Almond’s musical Girlfriend, based on Matthew Sweet’s album of the same name, continues to have productions around the country, as does his musical Melancholy Play, written with Sarah Ruhl. Other New York acting credits include Girl from the North Country on Broadway and at The Public, People are Wrong at the Vineyard, Piece of Meat opposite Sherie Rene Scott, and "Law and Order: SVU."  As a musical director, Almond tours with Laura Benanti and Judy Kuhn, and recently made his PBS debut with Andrew Rannells, Live From Lincoln Center.

Jenny Schwartz

Jenny Schwartz’s (Playwrightplays include God’s Ear, Somewhere Fun, Cause for Alarm, and 41-derful.  Jenny directed 41-derful for Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks 2014. Somewhere Fun premiered at the Vineyard Theatre in 2013, directed by Anne Kauffman.  God’s Ear was produced in New York by New Georges and the Vineyard Theatre, also directed by Anne Kauffman.  God's Ear has been produced nationally and internationally from Lisbon, Portugal to Boise, Idaho to Sydney, Australia.  With Todd Almond, Jenny was the 2012 recipient of the Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theatre to support the development of Iowa at New Dramatists.  Iowa was also developed at Sundance Theatre Institute Theatre Lab at Mass / MoCA. Other awards and honors include the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin H. Danks Award in Drama, a Kesselring honor, two grants from Lincoln Center’s Lecomte Du Nuoy Foundation, and Soho Rep’s Dorothy Streslin Playwriting Fellowship. God's Ear and Somewhere Fun were both finalists for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.  Jenny chairs the Soho Rep Writer / Director Lab with Ken Rus Schmoll and teaches playwriting at Playwright’s Horizons Theatre School / NYU Tisch. She received an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University, is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program, is a member of both The Clubbed Thumb Writers Group and New Dramatists.   

Reviews
  • “‘Iowa’ is never predictable — and its strangeness is purposeful, offering a real warning about the surreal world around us.”

    — Miriam Felton-Dansky, Village Voice | Read Full Article
  • “★★★★ Critic's Pick! Iowa’s satirical cartoonishness is captured splendidly in Ken Rus Schmoll’s staging, and the cast of eight sustains a remarkable tone of committed absurdism.”

    — Adam Feldman, Time Out New York | Read Full Article