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Biography
Jamie Pachino. JAMIE PACHINO is an award winning playwright, screenwriter and television writer. Her plays have been produced in four countries, commissioned, published and honored multiple times, and her film and television work has aired across the world. Ms. Pachino's plays have been named the winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays production grant, the Laurie Foundation Theatre Visionary Award, Chicago's Joseph Jefferson ("Jeff") Award for Best New Work, the Pinter Prize Gold Medal for Drama, and the Francesca Primus Prize by the American Theatre Critics Association, among many others. Her plays have been nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Illinois Governor's Award, and named Runner-up for the Osborn Award (American Theater Critics Association) and Jane Chambers Award. Ms. Pachino's plays have been produced and developed by such theatres as Steppenwolf, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, American Conservatory Theatre, San Jose Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Geva, Northlight, Florida Stage, A Contemporary Theatre, and the Women's Playwright Conference in Athens, Greece. Ms. Pachino's plays include Other Than Honorable, (world premiere at Geva Theatre, winner of multiple awards), Splitting Infinity (world premiere Geva Theatre, subsequent productions at San Jose Rep, Florida Stage, and many others), Waving Goodbye (world premiere at Steppenwolf and Naked Eye theatre companies, produced throughout the country), The Return to Morality (winner of eight national awards, produced throughout the country), Aurora's Motive (world premiere with Teatro Vista in Chicago, named one of "Top Ten Productions of the Year" by the Chicago Tribune), and Theodora: An Unauthorized Biography. Her adaptation of Studs Terkel's bestseller RACE has toured the country in a version for young audiences (Long Wharf, Northlight, and Blue Heron, among others), reaching over 16,000 students, and her short plays and monologues have been published and produced in festivals across the world. New work includes Some of the People, All of the Time (developed with Pasadena Playhouse, Asolo's Unplugged Festival and The Playwrights' Center, Minnesota). As a screenwriter, Ms. Pachino has written features for DreamWorks, Disney, Amazon, Lions Gate, Vanguard Films, Walden Media, and Smith/Hemion. For television, Ms. Pachino has written on series for Amazon, AMC, NBC, USA, and TNT, a pilot for FX, and movies for the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime Television, Up Network, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame, including one that gathered Emmy and SAG nominations for Gena Rowlands. Ms. Pachino is a proud member of the WGA, the Playwrights Center, and the International Center for Women Playwrights, and is represented by APA Agency, Kaplan Stahler and Cartel Entertainment. She has served on the faculties of Northwestern University (her alma mater), University of California Irvine, Columbia College, National Louis University and the Chicago Academy for the Arts. She currently makes her home in Los Angeles with her husband, composer and sound designer Lindsay Jones, and their two children.
