Jennifer won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, The Nether, which premiered with Center Theatre Group at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles and won the Ovation Award for Best New Play. The Nether was produced Off-Broadway by MCC Theater and in London by Headlong Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre, transferring with Sonia Friedman Productions to the West End at the Duke of York Theatre. The Nether has since been produced in 28 countries and translated into 19 languages, and is currently running at the Berliner Ensemble. Other plays include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, a horror story about suburbia and video games, and Froggy, a noir thriller with interactive media. Jennifer has developed work at the Humana Festival of New Plays, The Banff Centre, Sundance Theatre Lab, and the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. For television, she has written on Netflix’s Hemlock Grove and Mindhunter. She is an alum of New Dramatists in New York City, founder of The Playwrights Union in Los Angeles, and currently lives in Austin.
Reviews and Press:
American Theatre Magazine: “In the Uncanny Valley with Jennifer Haley”
LA Times: The Nether wins 7 Ovation Awards
Variety Review: The Nether at Center Theater Group
LA Times Review: The Nether at Center Theater Group
The Independent Review: The Nether at the Royal Court Theatre
The Guardian Review: The Nether at the Royal Court Theatre
New York Times Review: The Nether at MCC
Washington Post Review: The Nether at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
The Nether at CTG: Time Lapse Set Construction
Photos by Peter Konerko