Jennifer O’Grady
(Updated May 27, 2026) Jennifer O'Grady is a playwright and poet whose plays have been produced throughout the United States and in Europe, Asia, Australia and Mexico. Selected plays include CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS (1st Place Henley Rose Award; Rising Artists Award; O'Neill Semifinalist and other honors); FERTILE GROUND (Semifinalist for the O'Neill NPC, Princess Grace/New Dramatists Fellowship and Panndora's Box); PARANORMAL LOVE (MTWorks Newborn Award; NEWvember Finalist; Panndora's Box Runner-Up); ELLERY (Bechdel Group Selection; Waterworks Finalist); still small voice (Moxie Incubator Finalist); and "Sugar" (Authenticity Theater Audience Choice Award and Finalist for the Gary Garrison Ten-Minute Play Award and City Theatre's Susan J Westfall Award). Her plays are in multiple editions of the annual Best Ten-Minute Plays and Best Women's Stage Monologues among other anthologies, and have been presented by The Irish Rep, The Stella Adler Center for the Arts, City Theatre Miami, Short + Sweet, The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, Little Fish Theatre, 6th Street Playhouse, Heartland Theatre Company, Round the Bend Theatre, Rover Dramawerks, Gi60 and many others including colleges and schools across the U.S. and beyond. She is also the author of the poetry books WHITE (Midlist First Series Award for Poetry) and EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS (Plume Editions/MadHat Press). Her poems are published, reprinted and broadcast in numerous places, among them Poetry, Harper's, The New Republic, The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, BBC Radio 4 and American Poetry: The Next Generation, and have garnered awards and Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poem "Moths" is especially widely shared and reprinted and has been set to music and recorded by American Modern Ensemble. She holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA from Vassar and lives with her family in New York City.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Website: https://www.jenniferogrady.net
FB: https://www.facebook.com/jenniferogradypoet/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/jogrady.writes/
MORE ABOUT ME
Most gratifying moment in theater was the first production of my play CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS by the Stella Adler Studio in New York as part of its 2025 Modern Drama Round. Working with a cast of 3rd Year Stella Adler/NYU Tisch students and witnessing their profound love of their craft and eagerness to work on my play was inspiring and made me feel excited about the future theater. I keep doing theater because for me there's nothing more thrilling than writing for performance and bringing audiences together through the shared experience of watching a story unfold on stage.
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
I'm usually developing several projects at a time. I write full lengths, one acts, ten-minute plays and standalone monologues.
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