Biography
Janine Nabers is a 2012 New York Theatre Workshop playwriting fellow. Her plays include: Welcome to Jesus, Serial.Black.Face, Annie Bosh is Missing, A Swell in the Ground, West of the Willow Tree, Juniper, Jubilee and book to the musical A Beautiful Something (composer/lyricist Sharon Kenny). Janine is a currently a member of MCC Playwrights Coalition and the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer's Group at Primary Stages. She was the Page 73 2011 Playwriting Fellow and is an alumna of Ars Nova Play Group, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, The Dramatist Guild playwriting Fellowship and the 2010 & 2011 Sundance Theater Program. Presently she is working on commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Keen Company and Theatre Works (Palo Alto) and is a Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting fellow at Juilliard. This summer she will be writing the book for the Boris Sagal Fellowship musical at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her short play Black Girl Gone recently completed a run with Headlong Theatre in London as part of their DECADE production. Janine is published by Nick Hern Books, Samuel French, and Playscripts.
