SATURDAY, MARCH 22nd, 2025 at 4PM

Next up: Jacquelyn Reingold's "A Story About a Girl" directed by Cady McClain, with Axial Ensemble Members Lev Harvey, Youlim Nam, Sergio Arguelles Catare, Najah Imani Muhammad, Tom Ryan, Marilyn Collazo, and Special Guest Camila Canó-Flaviá.

Post-reading moderation by Special Guest Cheryl Davis

Synopsis:  Once upon a time there was a neurodiverse girl who had no words. She met an outcast boy who had no friends. They make their own language of love, friendship and ultimate betrayal as they journey through life with and without each other.

• Sandra de Helen:
  “This play is not only a story about a girl, it is a story about life, love, trauma, and coping. The neurodivergent characters are so beautifully scripted, so real on the page, I can imagine how wonderful the play will be onstage. A truly theatrical play with a moving story.”

• Cheryl Bear:
  “A truly moving story of love and friendship in it's perfection and imperfection along the journey of life. Well done.”

• John Mabey:
  “I was incredibly moved and captivated by A STORY ABOUT A GIRL. Jacquelyn Reingold writes with so much insight and sensitivity about love, neurodivergence, and the complexity of relationships across the lifespan. Even the stage directions read beautifully, opening the text for such imaginative staging, and the representations of water throughout connect so well to the dialogue and story. This play is also wonderfully layered with experimental elements and would be a delight to watch come alive on stage.”

When: Saturday, September 7th 4PM - 6PM

Where: St John's Episcopal Church, 8 Sunnyside Ave, Pleasantville, NY

Suggested Donation: $20 adults, $10 students, or pay as you can

Jacquelyn Reingold is a playwright, TV writer, teacher, and advocate. Her plays, which include  FEAR LESS, KISS ME SOMEWHERE ELSE, STRING FEVER (with Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler), ACAPULCO, I KNOW, A STORY ABOUT A GIRL, GIRL GONE, 2B (OR NOT 2B), and FREEZE TAG, have been seen in New York at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, The Working Theater, MCC Theatre; at Actors Theatre Louisville, Portland Center Stage, Theater J in DC, PlayLabs Minneapolis; and in London, Dublin, Berlin, Belgrade and Lima.

Honors include: a 2023 “Go Make Theater” Lilly Award as a playwright and advocate, the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, EST/Sloan Foundation commissions, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, New Dramatists' Whitfield Cook Award. Plus Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross, and Hermitage Artist Fellowships. 

Jackie’s plays have been published in WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS: THE BEST PLAYS, several BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS, by Samuel French, Vintage Books, Smith & Kraus. A collection of her one-acts THINGS BETWEEN US is published by DPS. Her short plays have been recorded by Playing On Air with Hope Davis, Richard Kind, William Jackson Harper, Matthew Cowles, Jodi Long. Jackie wrote the Preface to SHE PERSISTED: 10 MINUTE PLAYS BY WOMEN+ OVER 40 and SHE PERSISTED: 100 MONOLOGUES BY WOMEN+ OVER 40. 

In television, Jackie was a writer/Executive Producer for Paramount+'s critically acclaimed THE GOOD FIGHT starring Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald, Executive Producers, Robert and Michelle King. Other TV writing includes BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, a pilot for John Wells Productions; CBS’ EAST NEW YORK; Netflix’s GRACE AND FRANKIE, NBC’s SMASH, CBS’ BRAINDEAD; NBC’s LAW & ORDER CI; MTV’s DARIA. Jackie wrote all the MIA episodes for Emmy nominated Gabriel Byrne and Hope Davis for HBO’s Peabody Award winning IN TREATMENT.

Jacquelyn has taught dramatic writing at Tisch/NYU, Stony Brook-Manhattan, Columbia University, Ohio University and she’s been a frequent teaching artist across the country. A member of Ensemble Studio Theater, The Tent, and a New Dramatists alum, Jacquelyn is a founding member of Honor Roll! an advocacy group for older women+ playwrights whose goal is inclusion in theater. She and writer Cheryl Davis are currently on a campaign to meet with all of NYC’s theaters to advocate for women+ playwrights over 50.