Playwright’s Resumé
PUBLICATION
A monologue from my one-act play Purdah will be published by Smith and Kraus for
THE SHOWER
It’s the 1970’s, suburbia. Adele desperately wants to get close to her teenage daughter Julie, but she’s rebellious, strong willed, and locked in the bathroom. Calamity ensues through the bathroom door in this inter generational comedy.
Had an online reading as part of Cosmic Orchid’s Behind Closed Doors program 2020.
MY INFINITY MASK
online video, youtube 2020
Monologues from “Vulcanic Surrender” and “On the Road to Holeness” were accepted for publication in an anthology entitled “She Persisted”, Applause Books, 2021, cancelled due to the pandemic.
I FEEL GOOD!
Was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Downtown Urban Arts Festival, and was scheduled to be produced at The Signature Theatre, June 2020, cancelled due to Covid-19
had a staged reading, as part of Itinerant Theatre Louisiana’s “Women Leading: New Play Series”, June 2019.
had a studio production (by invitation only) as part of The Lock Festival, Polaris North, September 2018.
GROWL
Was accepted into The Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference, 2020, postponed to June 2021.
Was produced as part of Theatre Odyssey’s One Act Festival, Sarasota, Fl. 2019, and awarded Runner-Up for Best Play
Had a concert reading as part of Nevertheless, She Persisted at The Shattered Glass Project, Seattle 2019.
was produced as part of The Downtown Urban Arts Festival, at The Wild Project, NYC, 2019.
semi-finalist Warner International Playwrights Festival 2020
was selected as a semi-finalist in The Phoenix Theatre Festival of Short Plays 2018
SLICING AN ONION
Was produced as part of The International Human Rights Art Festival at The Wild Project, December 10, 2019.
Was presented as part of Code Red Playwrights #Faith, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, NYC, October 2019, at Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, Oregon, April 2019 and at Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, March 2019, Mystic Vision Players Theatre Company Linden, NJ 2020, postponed
CLARE was scheduled to have a reading at The Depot, Ct, 2020, rescheduled for February 21, 2021 on zoom
HELLO OCEAN
had a staged reading, as part of Itinerant Theatre Louisiana’s “Women Leading: New Play Series”, June 2019.
had a reading at the Inge Theater Festival new play Lab, May 2018.
had studio production (by invitation only) as part of The Lock Festival, Polaris North 2017
FLUID (reading) Itinerant Theatre Louisiana’s “The Play’s The Thing: Life Inspired Series”, scheduled for 2020, at a date tbd
ZOOM CASTE
semi-finalist for for Alleyway Theatre’s Mazumdar Digital New Play Competition 2020
finalist, online reading, Fable Workshop Quaranscenes, UK 2021
IN ALABAMA
was produced as part of Theater for The New City’s Dream Up Festival, September 7-16 2017
was produced as part of The Voire Dire Project 2016 at Cap 21 & Westbeth Theatre, NYC
THE UNDERCURRENT had a studio production (by invitation only) at Polaris North July 2017
PALAK PANEER was produced as part of The New Yorker’s One-Act Festival 2018 and
The Big Apple Theater Festival, 2017 at The Producers Club Theater
THE QUIET CAR, had a studio production (by invitation only) at Polaris North, March 2017.
RIDE TO THE BRIDGE
had a reading as part of Summer Play Fest, Jefferson Market Library 2018
MOUNTAIN DEW
Had a reading at the Winter 2017 Equity Library Theater Play Festival at the NYPL 53rd Street Branch Theater January 2017
had a reading as part of HERSTORY NOPlays Festival at The Silk Road Gallery New Haven, Ct. April 2016
had a workshop production at Polaris North (by invitation only), NY September 2015
A SIRI-OUS SITUATION was produced as part of The 9th Annual InspiraTO Festival Toronto, Canada, May-June 2014
ON THE TURNPIKE, a short play studio performance as part of Plays and Prestidigitation 5, (by invitation only) Polaris North, 2014
HURRICANE SANDY (poem) was the finale of the show NY LADIES, WOMEN WHO WRITE WITH WIT, The Hudson Guild, 2013
TIT FOR TSA-T, a short play, studio performance as part of Plays and Prestidigitation 3, Polaris North, (by invitation only) 2013, reading as part of One Acts and Snacks, February 2017, reading at Lower East Side Festival 2011.
DUST, a one-act play, 2008, revised 2011-2015. Staged reading at Polaris North 2015 and 2012
JUST FOR TODAY a one-act play 2012. Staged reading at Polaris North 2012
INDIRA, a full -length play 2014.
DELHI DUO, a one -act play workshop production March 1995 at Theater for the New City
VULCANIC SURRENDER, a one- act play workshop production March 1995 at Theater for the New City, staged reading at Polaris North 2015
ON THE ROAD TO HOLENESS, a full length comedy/drama workshop production May 1990 at Theater for the New City, listed in The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989-1990: featuring the ten best plays of the season
THE ROSY CAVE. a full length comedy/drama , workshop production February 1988 at Theater for the New City
Studied playwriting with
Dick Longchamps, HB Studios 1980’s and
Tina Howe, Dramatists Guild Institute 2019, 2018 and
2013 Einhorn School of Performing Arts
Attended The Citywrights Conference, Miami 2013.
https://www.dramatistsguild.com/members/jloisdiamond
Ten minute comic plays include:
MOUNTAIN DEW had a studio production at Polaris North September 2015 (by invitation only), a reading as part of Equity Library Theatre’s Winter Festival, January 2017 at 53 St Library, NY and a reading as part of HERSTORY NOPlays Festival of 365 Women a Year Project at The Silk Road Art Gallery, New Haven, Ct. April 2016.
A SIRI-OUS SITUATION, finalist in the 9th annual Theatre InspiraTO Festival, produced, Toronto, Canada 2014
THE QUIET CAR, had a studio production (by invitation only) at Polaris North, March 24-26, 2017.
PALAK PANEER, produced at The Big Apple Theatre Festival, June 2017
PICK AND PRICK
THE BOOSTERS
THE PET SITTERS
ON THE TURNPIKE, studio production at Polaris North, 2014
TIT FOR TSA-T, studio production at Polaris North 2013,staged readings, One-Acts and Snacks, Casa Beverly February 2017 and The Lower East Side Festival, 2011.
THE CLEARING, staged reading at the Lower East Festival May 2013.
THE TRANSFER STUDENT, staged reading The Lower East Side Festival, May 2012
HIGH COLONIC MOUNTAIN, staged reading Lower East Side Festival, May 2010
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER MEDICAL MORONIC PROGRAM, staged reading, Lower East Side Festival, May 2007.
Author of numerous comedy sketches performed by Outta Control & Out the Window at The Westbank Café, Trocadero, Steve Mcgraws, the Duplex, Rose’s Turn,(1991-2000) THE LEGACY, Sande Shurin Studios, 2002.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member of the Dramatist Guild (since 1986)
Member of Polaris North (since 2012)
Member of Honor Roll (since 2020)
FILM : Author of the screenplay Artemis, (1992)
Performances of numerous comedy sketches and 10 minute plays
EDUCATION B.A. Queens College, majored in psychology, also heavy concentration in theatre/dance, cum laude with honors in psychology Licensed massage therapist (graduate of the Swedish Institute for Massage)
DIRECTOR
Reading of Purdah and Clare, Polaris North, 2020
Production of Slicing An Onion, International Human Rights Art Festival, The Wild Project, December 2019
Workshop production of Fright or Flight, The Lock Festival September 2019
Workshop production of I Feel Good!, The Lock Festival September 2018
Workshop production of The Undercurrent, Polaris North, July 2017
Workshop production of The Quiet Car, Polaris North, March 2017
Workshop production of Mountain Dew, Polaris North, September 2015.
Readings of Vulcanic Surrender, Dust, 2015, Polaris North
Readings of Dust, Just For Today, 2012, Polaris North.
Production of Delhi Duo, Theater for the New City, March 1995.
Reading of Margaret Sanger, A Woman Rebel, by Jessica Feder Birnbaum, Hunter College Playhouse, July 1990.
Reading of On the Road to Holeness, Our Studios, July 1989.
Reading of The Rosy Cave. Polaris, April 1986.
Performances of numerous comedy sketches and 10 minute plays
