Playwright - Jennifer Bloomfield, Resume, Awards, Honors, credits

Playwright - Jennifer Bloomfield - Resumé

HONORS		REVIEWS
Best Original Script, Maryland One-Act Festival: "Water People" Cedar Lane Stages, 2001 NASA Development Grant, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 2001 Honorable Mention, George Kernodle Play Contest:"Fancy Pants": 2001 Finalist, Princess Grace Awards: "Laughing Under the Sea": 1999 Finalist, Princess Grace Awards: "Water People": 1998		Escaping Warsaw US News and World Report writes of the 1999 production: " This weekend, when a group of Holocaust survivors and their descendants assemble for an annual meeting in Burlington, Vt., they will be grappling as much with the atrocities of 1999 as with those of the 1940... in the play Escaping Warsaw...participants will confront ghosts of a past they hoped had been forever exorcised."
Honorable Mention, Critic's Best of the Festival Awards: "Water People": Growling Pup Theatre Festival, 1997. Winner National Telly Award: "Riyadh Nightlights": television pilot, co-writer, 1994. Schubert Foundation Grant recipient, 1992-4.		Water People "...its imaginative force left me - and the rest of the audience - happily mesmerized." - VOX, Vermont's Voice of the Arts.
Honorable Mention, Southeast Region Young Playwrights' Competition : "High Ambitions": a short one-act drama, 1991.		"The dialogue is frequently nothing short of masterful." - VOX, Vermont's Voice of the Arts
TEACHING Chair, General Studies. Burlington College, Burlington, VT. (2001-present) Adjunct Professor, Theatre, Dance, Writing and Literature. Burlington College, Vermont College, Community Coll. of Vt., Burlington, VT, since 1999. Playwriting. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,1994; Literature and Language. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, 1991-2		Blood, White and Blue "Blood, White and Blue is an arresting meal of fun and substance." The Amesbury News. "The hearty, satisfying menu effectively mixes humor and stark messages, using graphic language that will shock only those of you recently removed from the seminary."
Dance Instructor/ Performer/ Choreographer. Mishalot Dance Troupe, Providence, RI, 1987-91 EDUCATION Carnegie Mellon University, MFA Playwriting, 1994 Brown University, AB 1991, American Civilization, Race and Gender Studies in Literature, Honors, Magna Cum Laude		"The youthful Bloomfield is an enthusiastic and winning performer, deftly building rapport with the audience... convey[ing] the underlying sexual connotations of the play with a savory, fully clothed sensuality." The Amesbury News. Coyote Dreams "Don't expect safe, conventional work... Bloomfield and Pozzebon are committed to challenging theatrical conventions." - Seven Days, Vermont's Arts Weekly.
PUBLICATIONS Water People, limited edition by The Minimal Press ©1997. "Anti-Semitism without Jews", Washington Jewish Week, 1992. Revolution, Big Heavy World 1998 Touch Me, Cupid, 1998. Blood, White and Blue, The Minimal Press, 1998		The Woman of My Dreams "The Woman of My Dreams illustrates.. a soul-searching quest for the ideal life." VOX, Vermont's Voice of the Arts Jennifer Bloomfield's plays and writing samples are available by request at JennyFB@aol.com