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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 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 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 (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), Other Than Honorable, and
the book to the musical Sing Me A Happy Song, with composer Georgia
Stitt.
As a screenwriter, Ms. Pachino has written features for DreamWorks, Disney,
Vanguard Films, Walden Media, and Smith/Hemion. Other film scripts
have been optioned by Greenestreet, Hearst, Trigger Street Films, and
Lions Gate. On television, Ms. Pachino currently writes for the series
Franklin & Bash (TNT), with previous series work on Fairly Legal (USA
Network), and freelance work for Rizzoli & Isles (TNT). She has
written movies for Lifetime Television 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
Abrams Artists Agency and Evolution 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.
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