Jennie Webb is an LA-based playwright and dramaturg (she created the new play development program, Seedlings, at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum which she ran from 2002-2019, and in 2021 co-created the Ignite Project at Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles) with works including “Reach,” “Currency,” “Yard Sale Signs,” “Carry On,” “Smiling Cat Candy Heart,” “Remodeling Plans,” “Unclaimed Assets,” “On Tuesday,” “It’s Not About Race,” “Rebecca on the Bus,” “About What Matters,” “Separate Loads,” “Brand New Script” and “Buying a House” produced in the LA area by Inkwell Theater, Rogue Machine Theatre, EST/LA, Santa Monica Rep, Virginia Avenue Project, Road Theatre, Theatre of NOTE and La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival, as well as in Canada, the UK, Europe, India, Iran, Iceland and at universities and colleges across the country.

Her plays have been developed by Great Plains Theatre Conferences, The Playwrights’ Center, Moving Arts MADlab, Blank Theatre, Open Fist Theatre Company, Company of Angels, PlayGround-LA, PlayGround Residency, National Winter Playwrights Retreat, Little Black Dress INK Festivals, Protest Plays Project, PlagueWrites, Climate Change Theatre Action, Clamour Theatre Company, Rogue Artist Ensemble’s Rogue Lab, Road Theatre Summer Playwrights Festivals and the Road’s inaugural Under Construction Playwrights Group. These plays include “The Complete Story of the War,” “Crazy Bitch,” “Jilt,” “Into the Gobpile,” “Not Cake,” “adaptation.resilience,” “The Big Red Naugahyde Booth (or, Would-be Elks),” “Footprint,” “Dead People’s Dishes” and “Wound Care.” Her work is published by Heinemann Press, Smith & Kraus, Next Stage Press and ICWP and included in Honor Roll!’s first “50 Plays by Women+ Over 50.” 

Now in its fourth year, the Kayenta New Play Lab is where bold new voices in American theater come to life. Over three weeks, six visionary playwrights—chosen by a panel of esteemed local and national theatermakers—dive into an intensive creative residency, shaping fresh, original works for the stage.

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