God's Ear: A Play
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God's Ear marks the debut of Jenny Schwartz, "an indelibly clever playwright, possessed of linguistic playfulness and a lively sense of rhythm" ( The Village Voice). Through the skillfully disarming use of clichéd language and homilies, the play explores with subtle grace and depth the way the death of a child tears one family apart, while showcasing the talents of a promising young playwright who "in [a] very modern way [is] making a rather old-fashioned case for the power of the written word" ( The New York Times).
"Masterfully use[s] language without ever trusting it to tell the truth . . . Just like Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking , Schwartz knows that unbearable news can make us turn our daily lives into distracting flights of fancy." — Variety
"Tremendous . . . What is revolutionary is Schwartz's ability make linguistic gamesmanship into something profoundly moving." — Time Out New York
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Jenny Schwartz's play God's Ear was produced off-off Broadway in May 2007 and moved off-Broadway in April 2008. Two of Jenny's plays, Intervals and Cause for Alarm, were part of the New York Fringe Festival, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. She is the recipient of a grant from the Lincoln Center Lecomte du Nuoy Foundation and is the 2007-2008 recipient of the Dorothy Stresling Foundation Fellowship at Soho Rep. Jenny completed two years of fellowship in the Playwriting Program at the Julliard School and holds an MFA in theater directing from Columbia University.
