Jenny Schwartz News

The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize has announced ten finalists for the prestigious playwriting award which celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year. The awards are given annually to recognize women from around the world who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.

Alexandra Conley, who has served as Executive Director of Soho Rep since 1999, is leaving that post, it has been announced by Jon Dembrow, Chairman of the Board at Soho Rep. Ms. Conley leaves Soho Rep to join her husband in Milan, Italy, where he has accepted a new position in the fashion industry.

Venturing out of the chorus, André has had a lead in 'Pippin' regionally and a featured role in an ABC soap storyline.

God's Ear - Jenny Schwartz's new play that was developed by The Vineyard Theatre and debuted at New Georges earlier this year - will return to The Vineyard as the company's third mainstage production of the 2007-08 Season, with previews set to begin in early April, it has been announced by Douglas Aibel, artistic director of The Vineyard Theatre.

Soho Rep will commence its inaugural series 'Soho Rep Studio,' new plays in development at Soho Rep which are free and open-to-the-public

Soho Rep - the Obie Award-winning theatre company (46 Walker St.) - will expand its main stage productions from two plays to three during the 2007-08 season

Jenny Schwartz -- an emerging young playwright whose numerous works include the recently-acclaimed God's Ear, along with Cause for Alarm and Escaping the Modern World-- has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Soho Rep Dorothy Strelsin Playwriting Fellow, it was announced last evening by Soho Rep Artistic Director Sarah Benson at the Soho Rep Spring Gala '07 in Manhattan.

Multi-award-winning actor/director Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 'The Grey Zone') will host the star-studded Spring Gala '07 for Obie Award-winning Soho Rep on Monday, May 14

God's Ear, a full-length play written by Jenny Schwartz (Cause for Alarm) and directed by Anne Kauffman (Soho Rep's The Thugs), will see its world premiere Off Broadway at the East 13th Street Theater, 136 East 13th Street (between 3rd and 4th Avenues).

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and The Graduate Center, CUNY, with The Lucille Lortel Foundation, will present the four-day event 'PRELUDE '06: At the Forefront of Contemporary NYC Theatre.'