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Jennie Redling is a recipient of BMI’s Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement as a Librettist, the national Stanley Drama Award and the Arlene R. and William P. Lewis Playwriting Award for Women. She was nominated by Ensemble Studio Theatre for the Arnold L. Weissberger Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant,...

Jennie Redling is a recipient of BMI’s Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement as a Librettist, the national Stanley Drama Award and the Arlene R. and William P. Lewis Playwriting Award for Women. She was nominated by Ensemble Studio Theatre for the Arnold L. Weissberger Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant, the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, the Arts & Letters Prize for Drama, the Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award, the Actors Theatre of Louisville Ten-Minute Play Competition and The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Jennie is the book writer for the musical My Heart is The Drum (with composer Phillip Palmer and lyricist Stacey Luftig) which premiered at Village Theatre in 2016 and was developed at the NAMT Festival of New Musicals, the Goodspeed Johnny Mercer Writers Colony, Kent State University, and the BMI Lehman-Engle Musical Theatre Workshop. Drum was featured in NAMT’s 46th Minute Concert in October 2017 and the Good to Go Festival of New Music by Women in 2018. A podcast reading of Jennie’s award-winning play, Gone Astray was aired by Pittsburgh’s 12 Peers Theatre in their 2016 Modern Myths New Play Series. Jennie’s screenplays include Zone One with Mark V. Olsen and The Six Candles. Among theatres where her plays were performed are Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mint Theater, Urban Stages, Abingdon Theatre, The Barrow Group, Penguin Repertory Theater, Chicago’s Organic Theatre Company, Buffalo’s Alleyway Theatre and New Jersey Repertory Theatre. Jennie's monologues and scenes are published in Smith & Kraus’s "Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20s and "Winners' Scenes for Kids and Teens," JAC Publishing and FAMOsa Publications’ "Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature” Volumes I and II and “Scenes from a Diverse World" by International Centre for Women Playwrights.” Jennie is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, BMI Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop, The Actors Studio Playwrights-Directors Lab, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, AEA and SAG-AFTRA. She is a certified crisis counselor having worked for over a decade with the Center for Safety and Change in Rockland County, New York serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. (https://www.jennieredling.com)

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