J.Lois Diamond

J.Lois Diamond is a playwright, poet and performer. She is a member of Honor Roll!, Polaris North and The Dramatists Guild, where she recently studied with Tina Howe. She has been a featured poet at The Cornelia St. Cafe. Her full length, one-act, and ten-minute plays have been performed at various off-off Broadway venues, including Theater for the New City, The Wild Project and The Hudson Guild. Her work has been produced regionally, in Canada and London. Her play Alicia was a semi-finalist with Utah Shakespeare’s Words Cubed Festival 2025.

Her play Hello Ocean had a reading at The William Inge Theater Festival. Her play Growl was presented at The Downtown Urban Arts Festival, and at Theatre Odyssey’s One Act Festival in Sarasota, Florida, where it was awarded runner-up for best play. Her play Slicing an Onion was produced at The International Human Rights Art Festival at The Wild Project in NY. Her play I Feel Good! was scheduled to be produced at The Signature Theatre as part of The Downtown Urban Arts Festival, 2020 (festival cancelled due to the pandemic), Her play Growl had a reading at The Valdez Theatre Conference.  Her monologue Open Palms was presented as part of Project Y’s Women in Theatre Festival Honor Roll! program, 2023. Her monologues are included in the Applause Books anthology She Persisted, and in Smith & Kraus, best of stage monologues 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 editions.