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The Jewish Plays Project returns to the OFJCC to celebrate new voices in playwriting—and to choose one brilliant new play!
Silicon Valley City Producers Lauren Berman (former OFJCC Board Member), Judy Kitt, Patti Sue Plumer, Susan Sims, Ellice Papp and Deborah Radin (JPP Board Member), in partnership with Michelle Shabtai and the Oshman JCC, are proud to present
the 11th Annual Silicon Valley Jewish Playwriting Contest!
Join the JPP, Oshman JCC, our City Producers and the 30-member Silicon Valley Community Reader's Panel for a stellar evening of community, culture and the JPP's specialty—artistic democracy!
90 minutes, seven actors, three playwrights and ONE WINNER—we need your votes and voice to choose!
Arrive early to schmooze with the cast during the reception on the terrace.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS
Motti Lerner: selected productions in Israel: "Kastner",
"Pangs of the Messiah", "Paula", "Pollard",
"Exile in Jerusalem", "Passing the Love of Women",
"Doing his Will", "The Abandoned Melody", "The First
Lady", "Autumn", "Hard Love" in Haifa Theatre,
"The Hastening of The End", "The Admission", "On the
Edge". His productions abroad include: "Kastner",
"Autumn", "The Muder of Isaac" in Heilbronn Theater,
Germany; "Exile in Jerusalem" in Stuttgart, Berlin and Vienna; "Hard Love" in New York, Rome and Berlin; "The Murder of
Isaac" in Centerstage, Baltimore, "Passing the Love of Women" in
Theater J, DC; "Pangs of the Messiah" in Theater J, Silk Road,
Chicago, Theater of Ideas, NY, Alliance theater, Atlanta.
"Benedictus" in Golden Thread Theatre, San Francisco, and in Theater
J; "Paulus" in Silk Road, Chicago; "The Admission" in
Theater J; "After The War" in Mosaic Theater, DC; "Eichmann's Trial" in
The National Theatre in Bucharest.
Ali Viterbi is a playwright, television writer and educator. Her
play "In Every Generation" (the winner of JPP's 2019 National Jewish Playwriting
Contest) received its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in 2022 and its
west coast premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in 2023. Ali's work has been
developed and/or commissioned by Geffen Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla
Playhouse, Round House Theatre, National New Play Network, San Diego REP,
Carthage College, HERE Arts Center, The Barrow Group and North Coast Repertory
Theatre, among others. She has developed projects in TV, is a recipient of a 2024 Macdowell Residency and was a member of the Geffen Playhouse Writers' Room. Ali received her BA from Yale University and her MFA in playwriting from UC San Diego.
Jennifer Maisel's "The Last Seder" premiered off-Broadway after
productions around the world. Her Sundance-developed "Out of Orbit" was
awarded an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P Sloan rewrite commission for plays
about science and technology, made the 2016 Kilroy List and won the Stanley and
the Woodward/Newman Awards before premiering at Williamston Theatre and
Bloomington Playwrights Project. Her PEN West Literary finalist "There or Here" had its London premiere in 2018. "@thespeedofJake", also a Pen West
Literary finalist, premiered in LA with Playwrights' Arena. Jennifer has
written movies for major networks and cable, as well as independent features
and has sold original pilots. She was one of five writers invited
into the prestigious Humanitas 2018 PlayLA workshop where she developed "Better".
Her "Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020" was part of the Lucille Lortel Alcove project and
her "Eight Nights" premiered at Antaeus Theatre, garnering the Ovation award for
Best Playwriting.
ABOUT JPP
The Jewish Plays Project is the nation's leading development theater for 21st century Jewish theater. The JPP's one-of-a-kind, best-in-class programs are rooted in community, committed to diversity and focused on making Jewish stories into public stories. In 13 years, the JPP has received and vetted over 2,100 plays from more than 1,400 writers in 34 states and 10 countries. Best of all, the JPP has actively developed 57 of those plays, 37 of which have gone on to production in cities across the globe, including New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv, playing for more than 100,000 audience members.
The JPP regularly features the best artists working in New York, including writers David Hein and Irene Sankoff (Come from Away), Robert Askins (Hand to God), and Lauren Yee (Cambodian Rock Band); directors Stephen Brackett (Be More Chill, A Strange Loop), Daniella Topol (Rattlestick Theater AD), and Tamilla Woodard (Yale Drama, WP Theater); and actors Andrew Polk (The Band's Visit, Mrs. Maisel), Ronald Guttman (Mad Men, Homeland), Gus Birney (The Mist, Dickinson), and Obie and Drama Desk nominee Marcia Jean Kurtz.
Founder and Executive Artistic Director
David Winitsky is the Founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Jewish Plays Project, the nation's leading development house for contemporary Jewish theater. Since founding the JPP, he has been a Storahtelling/LabShul Maven, a 2014–17 UpStart National Fellow, a 2013 LABA Artist Fellow and a 2011 PresenTense New York City Fellow. Currently, he is a Fellow at UJA's Institute for Jewish Executive Leadership at Columbia Business School.
Sunday, April 6
7:00–8:30 PM
Freidenrich Conference Center (Bldg F) 4th Floor
Free
Contact: Michelle Shabtai |
[email protected]
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