Works by Jennie Redling:
GONE ASTRAY
Synopsis:
Gone Astray – Kerryn O’Malley has insisted for nine years that her abducted child is still alive. Since her daughter’s disappearance, she has frozen herself, her husband and their mentally handicapped son in a changeless state. With the missing girl’s twentieth birthday approaching, a young woman of the Lakota nation arrives at their doorstep and is persuaded to recover the lost child. A battle of wills ensues when the hopes of Kerryn, a white woman steeped in Roman Catholic ritual, clash with the doubts of a Native American who has wandered adrift of her ancestors’ beliefs.
Bio:
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 is a finalist for the 2020 American Theatre Wing’s Jonathan Larson Grant, the 2020 Ensemble Studio Theatre Alfred P. Sloan Project, the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, the Arts & Letters Prize for Drama, Ensemble Studio Theatre One-Act Marathon, 2009 Firehouse Theatre Contest of New American Plays, The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and Semifinalist for Prop Thtr National New Play Festival and 2020 Playmakers’ Thomas Wolfe International Playwriting Competition.
Jennie is the book writer for the musical My Heart is The Drum (with composer Phillip Palmer and lyricist Stacey Luftig) which received a world premiere 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 March 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 read or produced are Chicago’s Organic Theatre Company, Buffalo’s Alleyway Theatre, New Jersey Repertory Theatre, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mint Theater, Urban Stages, Abingdon Theatre, The Barrow Group, New York Theater Festival and Penguin Repertory Theater.
Jennie’s monologues and scenes are published in Smith & Kraus’s “Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20’s” and “Winners’ Scenes for Kids and Teens,” JAC Publishings’ “Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature,” Volumes I and II and the International Centre for Women Playwrights’ “Scenes from a Diverse World.” Jennie is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, BMI Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, AEA and SAG-AFTRA. She is a Neighborhood Playhouse trained Drama Coach and a certified crisis counselor having worked for over a decade with the Center for Safety and Change, Rockland County, New York serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Website: www.jennieredling.com