My full-length plays include A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, co-written with Tim Marriott (Tabard Theatre, London 2025; Brits off Broadway, 59E59 Theaters 2025); THE NEW ABNORMAL (Adelaide Fringe, Goodwood Theater 2024); SURVIVORS (Arts Club of Washington National Playwriting Award; Princess Grace Award semifinalist); UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT (Woodward/Newman Drama Award finalist; Detroit New Works Festival winner); STORAGE LOCKER (IATI Theater Mainstage; Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence third prize); and PARALYZED (JET Theater Festival of New Plays; O’Neill Playwrights Conference semifinalist). My short plays have received multiple productions in New York City, across the United States and in Europe. EMERGENCY ROOM, a satirical one-act about the dysfunctional American health care system, received the Upstage Playwright Award from Houston’s Upstage Theatre. MISS IRRELEVANT, a short play inspired by the #MeToo movement, was produced in London in 2018 and is included in THE BEST TEN MINUTE PLAYS OF 2019 (Smith & Kraus) and THE BEST NEW TEN MINUTE PLAYS, 2019 (Applause Books). My short play CUSTOMER SERVICE received its world premiere at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, Ireland in 2019. My Coronavirus microplay, THE BARTER, was produced by the Quaranstream Theatre Festival in 2020 and was published in LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE: FORTY-FIVE 5 MINUTE COMEDIC PLAYS IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS (Smith & Kraus). Jeff’s short play about the pandemic, THE NEW ABNORMAL, received the 2020 Segora One Act Play Prize. An expanded, full-length version of THE NEW ABNORMAL was co-directed and co-produced by Tim Marriott at the Adelaide Fringe in 2024. His latest full-length play, SAM AND RICK, explores the unlikely friendship between Samuel Beckett and Rick Cluchey, a prisoner in San Quentin who was serving a life sentence without parole. BA, Brown University. MFA, University of Southern California. Member: Dramatists Guild of America; Writers Guild of America, East; and PEN America.
RECENT NEWS
A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, co-written with Tim Marriott, will be produced at 59E59 Theaters in New York from May 29, 2025 to June 29, 2025 as part of the 2025 BRITS OFF BROADWAY festival.
A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, co-written with Tim Marriott, received its world premiere at the Tabard Theatre in London on February 26, 2025 and ran through March 22, 2025.
THE NEW ABNORMAL received its world premiere at the Adelaide Fringe in Adelaide, Australia on February 16, 2024 and ran through February 27, 2024, in the Main Theatre at Goodwood Theatre and Studios
CUSTOMER SERVICE was produced by Open Hydrant Theater Company at the Point in the Bronx from December 9-17, 2023.
THE HOLDING ROOM was produced by Open Hydrant Theater Company at The Point in the Bronx from September 15-24, 2023.
THE NEW ABNORMAL (full length version) received a rehearsed reading at the Grove Theater, Eastbourne, UK, as part of the Eastbourne Fringe on July 29, 2023.
My short play MISS IRRELEVANT was produced at the 24th Street Theatre in San Antonio TX on April 13, 2023.
My short play CUSTOMER SERVICE was produced at the Etcetera Theatre in London, UK, on March 17, 2023.
SAM AND RICK AND THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF RICK CLUCHEY, an essay I co-wrote with Nora Masterson, was published in the Spring/Summer 2022 issue of READING IRELAND: The Little Magazine. A twelve-page excerpt of SAM AND RICK was also published in the issue.
For more information about me or my work, please email jeffardy@outlook.com