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 and as part of The InspiraTO Festival in Toronto.  

Her play Hello Ocean had a reading at The 2018 Inge Theater Festival. Her play Growl was presented at The 2019 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, 2019 Her play I Feel Good! was scheduled to be produced at The Signature Theatre as part of The Downtown Urban Arts Festival, June 2020 (festival cancelled), Her play Growl had a reading at The Valdez Theatre Conference in 2021. Her monologues are included in the Applause Books anthology She Persisted, and in Smith & Kraus, best of women’s 2021 and 2022 editions.