JENNIE STANILOFF-REDLING is the book writer for the musical My Heart is The Drum (with composer Phillip Palmer and lyricist Stacey Luftig) which received a world premiere at Village Theatre in 2016 and was developed at the NAMT Festival of New Musicals, the Goodspeed Johnny Mercer Writers Colony, Kent State University, and the BMI Lehman-Engle Musical Theatre Workshop. All performances directed by Schele Williams. Jennie’s award-winning play, Gone Astray, about the fight between a white woman and a Lakota girl over the spirit of a lost child, was aired by Pittsburgh’s 12 Peers Theatre in their 2016 Modern Myths Play Series and is currently in development as a musical with Natalie Barnes (Ojibwe) and Christopher Blacker. Jennie’s screenplays include Zone One with Mark V. Olsen and The Six Candles. Among theatres where her plays were read or produced are Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mint Theater, Urban Stages, Abingdon Theatre, The Barrow Group, Buffalo’s Alleyway Theatre, New Jersey Repertory Theatre, the New York Theater Festival and Penguin Repertory Theater.
Jennie is a recipient of BMI’s Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement as a Librettist, the national Stanley Drama Award and the Arlene R. and William P. Lewis Playwriting Award for Women. She is a finalist for the 2020 American Theatre Wing’s Jonathan Larson Grant, the 2020 Ensemble Studio Theatre Alfred P. Sloan Project, the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater, the Arts & Letters Prize for Drama, Ensemble Studio Theatre One-Act Marathon, 2009 Firehouse Theatre Contest of New American Plays, and The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Jennie's monologues and scenes are published in Smith & Kraus’s "Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20’s" and "Winners' Scenes for Kids and Teens," JAC Publishings "Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature,” Volumes I and II and the International Centre for Women Playwrights' "Scenes from a Diverse World.”
Jennie’s memberships include the Dramatists Guild of America (Lifetime), the BMI Musical Theatre Advanced Book Writers Workshop (Alumnus), Maestra Music, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, AEA and SAG-AFTRA. She is a Neighborhood Playhouse trained Drama Coach and a certified rape crisis counselor having worked for over a decade with the Center for Safety and Change, Rockland County, New York. Jennie is a decades long promoter of Native American culture and birthrights, having entrenched herself in enlightenment re original people's history, identity and traditions.
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