Jeanne Dorsey (She/her/hers) is a New York based writer of plays, screenplays, teleplays, and essays. Her play The Kit: Made by Martha (commissioned by EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) was a 2023 satellite presentation of EST’s First Light Festival, co-produced by the Bechdel Project. She is the inaugural recipient of the 2022 Bechdel Project/Room of One’s Own residency. Other plays: A Little Bit of Forever, Away Towards Home (nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Footprints in The Snow (nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize; semi-finalist for the O’Neill 2009 National Playwrights Conference), Blood From a Stoner (EST Marathon), The Longbottom Way, The Soul Savers, Too Small to Drive, Compliments to Amanda (finalist for the Heideman Award), Stepping Out with Mr. Markham, At the Movies with Vera and Vivian Vigilante, and Gideon and Josephine have been developed and/or produced at EST, Gilgamesh Theatre, Naked Angels, New Georges, Play Group, Rattlestick, and Space at Ryder Farm. Her television pilot Highest and Best was a finalist for the Made in NY Writers Room television training program. She wrote, directed and produced the short film Blood from a Stoner which screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York and was an official selection in the 2015 Chain Film Festival, the 2014 Big Apple Film Festival, the 2014 FilmColumbia festival in Chatham, New York and the 2014 Hoboken International Film Festival. Her essay “Motherhood, Adoption, Ambivalence” is included in No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood published by Seal Press. Additionally she has been published by Smith and Krauss, Heinemann Press, and Applause Books. She has received fellowships to Fundación Valparaiso in Spain, Marble House Project, Monson Arts, Ragdale, the Santa Fe Art Institute, Ucross, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, the EST Playwrights Unit, the Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll!* and is a New Georges Affiliated Artist.
* HONOR ROLL! is an action and advocacy group of women+ playwrights over 40 whose aim is to significantly increase our inclusion and representation on stage and in the theatrical canon.