Silicon Valley City Producers Lauren Berman (former OFJCC Board Member), Judy Kitt, Patti Sue Plumer, Susan Sims, Ellice Papp, and Deborah Radin (JPP Board Member), in partnership with Michelle Shabtai and the Oshman JCC are proud to present
THE 11TH ANNUAL SILICON VALLEY JEWISH PLAYWRITING CONTEST!
Join the JPP, Oshman JCC, our City Producers, and the 30-member Silicon Valley Community Reader’s Panel for a stellar evening of community, culture and the JPP’s specialty – Artistic Democracy!
90 minutes, 7 actors, 3 playwrights, and ONE WINNER – we need your votes and voice to choose!
Arrive early to schmooze with the cast during the reception on the terrace.
The Jewish Plays Project is the nation’s leading development theater for 21st Century Jewish theater. The JPP’s one-of-a-kind, best-in-class programs are rooted in community, committed to diversity, and focused on making Jewish stories into public stories. In 13 years, the JPP has received and vetted over 2,100 plays from more than 1,400 writers in 34 states and 10 countries. Best of all,. the JPP has actively developed 57 of those plays, 37 of which have gone on to production in cities across the globe, including New York, Los Angeles, London, and Tel Aviv, playing for more than 100,000 audience members.
The JPP regularly features the best artists working in New York, including writers David Hein and Irene Sankoff (Come from Away), Robert Askins (Hand to God), and Lauren Yee Cambodian Rock Band); directors Stephen Brackett (Be More Chill, A Strange Loop), Daniella Topol (Rattlestick Theater AD), and Tamilla Woodard (Yale Drama, WP Theater); and actors Andrew Polk (The Band’s Visit, Mrs. Maisel), Ronald Guttman (Mad Men, Homeland), Gus Birney (The Mist, Dickinson), and Obie and Drama Desk nominee Marcia Jean Kurtz.
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* Free parking is available at the venue at the entrance on Fabian Way
Jennifer Maisel’s THE LAST SEDER premiered Off-Broadway after productions around the world. Her Sundance-developed OUT OF ORBIT was awarded an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P Sloan rewrite commission for plays about science and technology, made the 2016 Kilroy List and won the Stanley and the Woodward/Newman Awards before premiering at Williamston Theatre and Bloomington Playwrights Project. Her PEN West Literary finalist THERE OR HERE had its London premiere in 2018. @thespeedofJake, also a Pen West Literary finalist, premiered in LA with Playwrights’ Arena. Jennifer has written movies for major networks and cable, as well as independent features and has sold original pilots. Jennifer was one of five writers invited into the prestigious Humanitas 2018 PlayLA workshop where she developed BETTER. Her YELLOW WALLPAPER 2.0 2020 was part of the Lucille Lortel Alcove project and her EIGHT NIGHTS premiered at Antaeus Theatre, garnering the Ovation award for Best Playwriting.
Ali Viterbi is a playwright, television writer, and educator. Her play In Every Generation (the winner of JPP’s 2019 National Jewish Playwriting Contest) received its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater in 2022 and its west coast premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in 2023. Ali’s work has been developed and/or commissioned by Geffen Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Round House Theatre, National New Play Network, San Diego REP, Carthage College, HERE Arts Center, The Barrow Group, and North Coast Repertory Theatre, among others. Ali won the 2019 National Jewish Playwriting Contest and has developed projects in TV. She is a recipient of a 2024 Macdowell Residency and was a member of the Geffen Playhouse Writers’ Room. Ali received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.F.A. in Playwriting from UC San Diego.
Motti Lerner‘s selected productions in Israel: “Kastner”, “Pangs of the Messiah”, “Paula”, “Pollard”, “Exile in Jerusalem”, “Passing The Love of Women”, “Doing his Will”, “The Abondoned Melody” , “The First Lady” “Autumn”, “Hard Love” in Haifa Theatre, “The Hastening of The End” ,”The Admission” , “On the Edge”. His productions abroad include: “Kastner”, “Autumn”, “The Muder of Isaac” in Heilbronn Theater, Germany, “Exile in Jerusalem” in Stuttgart, Berlin and Vienna, “Hard Love” in New York, Rome and Berlin, “The Murder of Isaac” in Centerstage, Baltimore, “Passing the Love of Women” in Theater J, DC, “Pangs of the Messiah” in Theater J, Silk Road, Chicago, Theater of Ideas, NY, Alliance theater, Atlanta. “Benedictus” in Golden Thread Theatre, San Francisaco, and in Theater J, “Paulus” in Silk Road, Chicago, “The Admission” in Theater J, “After The War” in Mosaic Theater, DC. Eichmann’s Trial in The National Theatre in Bucharest.
