Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Jennifer Haley

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2008, 2015

Jennifer Haley is a playwright whose work delves into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on human relationships, identity, and desire.

She won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play The Nether, which was produced in Los Angeles, Off-Broadway, and on London’s West End.

At MacDowell in 2008, she completed a second draft of her play Breadcrumbs. In 2015, she began the first draft of Intelligence Poem: a play for Robots, a meditation on how artificial intelligence might process human intelligence.

Made at MacDowell

Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell

Breadcrumbs (play)

Studios

Heyward

Jennifer Haley worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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