Jayne Deely (they/them) is a Queens born and bred queer Puerto Rican writer who just completed their MFA in Playwriting at IU Bloomington, with a BA from the Honors College at Fordham University in Lincoln Center. Plays include Stay (semi-finalist, Detroit New Works Festival), Passing (semi-finalist, top 40 UCF Pegasus Playlab), 30 Seconds (semi-finalist Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival; honorable mention PLAY/write: The Jackie Demaline Regional Collegiate Playwriting Competition; winner Coe College Playwriting Award and BriNK Residency Award at Renaissance Theatreworks), Outraged (winner, John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play, Kennedy Center), Waycross (Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award, Distinguished Achievement), this won’t drag on (Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist; Jane Chambers Award Finalist), and most recently It's a Wonderful ... queer Puerto Rican Christmxs Carol, with Walter Mercado (American Stage Lift Every Voice New Play Festival). Jayne is also a performer, having worked with companies such as Theatreworks in Palo Alto, the Aurora, and Berkeley Rep; recent roles include Garnet McClit in Holly Hughes’ The Well of Horniness and Niece inthis won’t drag on, both at IUB. They are a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and the Dramatist’s Guild.
Plays
Max is a precocious kid, overachieving and a little anxious, sure, but mostly well adjusted. She’s got a lot going on, but she’s on top of it. Adult supervision not required. Besides, it’s 1999, what could go wrong?
Dr. C is a child psychologist recently dubbed the ‘child whisperer;’ her professional life is on a steady upward trajectory. Unfortunately the same can’t be said for her personal life. Enter Max.
When Max starts receiving threatening notes at school, she embarks on a hunt for the culprit in this pre-Y2K whodunit that what asks us what it means to be a kid in a chaotic world, and leaves us wondering if we’ve been looking in the wrong place all along. Just let your eyes adjust, and you’ll see what you’ve been missing take shape.
Successes
Semi-Finalist, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference – 2021 – 30 Seconds
Semi-Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival – 2021 – 30 Seconds
Winner, BriNK Residency Award at Renaissance Theatreworks – 2021 – 30 Seconds
Winner, Coe College Bi-Annual Playwriting Award – 2021 – 30 Seconds
Regional Finalist, Gary Garrison Ten Minute Play Award, KCACTF 2021 – A Home Bar Means You’re Fine
Winner, John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play, KCACTF 2021 - Outraged
Top 40 Finalist, UCF Pegasus Playlab 2020 - Passing
Semi-Finalist (Top 10) – Detroit New Works Festival – 2018 – Stay
Semi-Finalist – Mission to (dit)Mars Propulsion Lab – 2018 - Stay