From the page to the stage with playwright Jami Brandli

Jami Brandli is an award-winning playwright based in Los Angeles
and a faculty member in Lesley University's MFA in Creative
Writing program. In this episode she discusses "making it" as a
playwright, writing strong female characters and her trilogy
based on Greek mythology with Emily Earle, Lesley's social media
specialist.


Jami’s plays include Technicolor Life, S.O.E., M-Theory,
¡SOLDADERA!, Sisters Three, Through the Eye of a Needle, Medusa’s
Song, O: A Rhapsody in Divorce and BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!)
which was named in The Kilroys Top 46 List in 2014. Her work has
been produced/developed at New Dramatists, WordBRIDGE, The Lark,
New York Theatre Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference,
Launch Pad, The Antaeus Company, Chalk REP, The Road, among other
venues.


Current 2018-2019 Humanitas Prize PLAY LA playwright. Winner of
John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award, Holland New Voices Award
and Aurora Theatre Company's GAP Prize. Technicolor Life
premiered at REP Stage as part of the 2015 Women’s Voices Theater
Festival and recently received its Australian premiere at The
Depot Theatre. In 2018, BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) receives a
joint-world premiere with Moxie Theatre (San Diego) and
Promethean Theatre (Chicago), ending with Moving Arts’ production
this fall at Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles (LA Time’s
Critic’s Choice).


Sisters Three will receive its world premiere with The Inkwell
Theater (Los Angeles) in December, and Through the Eye of a
Needle also received its world premiere at The Road Theatre (Los
Angeles) this past spring.


She’s been a finalist for the 2016 PEN Literary Award for Drama,
Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Fellowship, Princess Grace Award,
O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Disney ABC TV
Fellowship and was also nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn
Award. Her short works are published with TCG and Smith &
Kraus. A proud member of the Playwrights Union, the Antaeus
Playwrights Lab, and The Dramatist Guild, Jami teaches dramatic
writing at Lesley University's low-residency MFA program. She is
represented by the Robert A Freedman Agency and Gramercy Park
Entertainment.


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