Jeana Scotti is a playwright and educator from Staten Island who currently lives in Brooklyn. She was a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group and is a New Georges Affiliated artist in addition to being the co-founder of Ugly Face Theatre, where she makes site-specific and community-focused theatre works.
Scotti is a 2025 Audrey Resident at New Georges. Recent plays include A Necessary Killing (Clubbed Thumb’s Winter Works, dir. Laura Dupper), and oh, Honey (dir. Carsen Joenk, site-specific production at the restaurant Little Egg in Brooklyn, produced by Ugly Face Theatre). She was an O’Neill semi-finalist and a Playwright’s Realm Fellowship semi-finalist for The Possessed Girls of St. Mary’s. She received her M.F.A. in playwriting from Rutgers Mason Gross. She currently lectures at the Maggie Flanigan Studio and Purchase College.
While at MacDowell, Scotti completed a draft of a new play, Furball, in which an STD develops in the form of a giant furball (made of cat fur) due to a romantic partner’s refusal to wash their hands after petting their cat. She also completed edits to a new draft of oh, Honey, a play about four women who meet once a month to discuss SA allegations against their sons on their college campuses.
