Name Jennifer Haley Role Playwright | Plays The Nether | |
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Nominations Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play | ||
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Jennifer Haley is an award-winning American playwright. She grew up in San Antonio, Texas and studied acting at the University of Texas at Austin for her undergraduate degree. Haley also received a MFA in playwriting at Brown University in 2005, where she worked under American playwright and professor, Paula Vogel. Now living in Los Angeles, Haley is pursuing a career in theatre, film and television.
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- the nether interview w playwright jennifer haley virtual reality play
- Interview with neighborhood 3 playwright jennifer haley
- Early years
- Career
- Awards Honors
- Works
- References
Interview with neighborhood 3 playwright jennifer haley
Early years
Haley first began writing during her last few years of undergrad to increase the amount of roles available to women. Under Vogel and her other professor's guidance, she began to shift her focus towards playwriting over the next few years.
Career
Her play, The Nether, was staged by Center Theatre Group in March 2013, at the Royal Court Theatre in July 2014, and at the MCC Theater in February 2015. It won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and seven Los Angeles Ovation Awards. In January 2015, the Royal Court production transferred to the West End.
Haley has worked with Center Theatre Group, the Royal Court Theatre, the Humana Festival of New American Plays, American Conservatory Theater, Theater 150, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, The Banff Centre, Sundance Theatre Lab, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Lark Play Development Center, Sacred Fools Theater Company, PlayPenn, Page 73, and the MacDowell Colony.
She is a member of New Dramatists and the founder of LA's Playwrights Union. Hosting events throughout the year, The Playwrights Union is a casual collective of playwrights in Los Angeles seeking to encourage new work for theatre, film and television.
Haley's other plays include Froggy and Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, which premiered at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville 2008 Humana Festival.
In addition to her work for the theatre, Haley wrote for the Netflix series Hemlock Grove and for the upcoming David Fincher-helmed series Mindhunter.
Awards & Honors
In 2012 Haley was the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her production of The Nether.
Works
The full list of Haley's plays can be found listed here.