About Me.
JAMI BRANDLI is the winner of the 2023 Jane Chambers Award and the 2023 Stanley Drama Award for her play, The Magician’s Sister. Other plays include: The Caregiver’s Guide, M-Theory, Technicolor Life, The Romeo and Juliet Senior Citizens Project—A Comedy, O: A Rhapsody in Divorce, and BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!)—named on The Kilroys List and a LA Times Critics’ Choice. Her work has been produced/developed at New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop, Kitchen Dog Theater, Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Center Theatre Group, among other venues.
Additional accolades include: 2022 Center Theatre Group Writer’s Workshop. Nominated for Best Playwriting for an Original Play; Los Angeles Ovation Awards. Humanitas Prize PLAY LA playwright. Winner of John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award, Holland New Voices Award, Ashland New Plays Festival and Aurora Theatre Company's GAP Prize. Finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Drama, the O’Neill and Ojai Playwrights Conference. Her short works are published with TCG, Dramatic Publishing Company, Applause Books, and Smith & Kraus.
Upcoming/recent productions and development:
The Magician's Sister was presented as part of Center Theatre Group's New Works Festival at The Kirk Douglas Theater. It recently received a workshop production at the Center for the Arts at Kayenta, January 2025. The Caregiver’s Guide was recently presented at Kayenta’s New Play Lab series, Summer 2024. O: A Rhapsody in Divorce is currently receiving a Rolling World Premiere with Mildred’s Umbrella (Houston, TX) in early 2024, and then with Outside In Theatre (Los Angeles) in Fall 2025. The Romeo and Juliet Senior Citizens Project—A Comedy will be presented at Coachella Valley Rep’s Origins Reading Festival, January 2025.
Jami is a proud member of The Playwrights Union, The Dramatists Guild, and The Independent Writers' Caucus where she is also developing film and TV projects. She teaches dramatic writing at Lesley University's low-residency MFA program and her plays can also be found on the New Play Exchange.
Additional accolades include: 2022 Center Theatre Group Writer’s Workshop. Nominated for Best Playwriting for an Original Play; Los Angeles Ovation Awards. Humanitas Prize PLAY LA playwright. Winner of John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award, Holland New Voices Award, Ashland New Plays Festival and Aurora Theatre Company's GAP Prize. Finalist for the PEN Literary Award for Drama, the O’Neill and Ojai Playwrights Conference. Her short works are published with TCG, Dramatic Publishing Company, Applause Books, and Smith & Kraus.
Upcoming/recent productions and development:
The Magician's Sister was presented as part of Center Theatre Group's New Works Festival at The Kirk Douglas Theater. It recently received a workshop production at the Center for the Arts at Kayenta, January 2025. The Caregiver’s Guide was recently presented at Kayenta’s New Play Lab series, Summer 2024. O: A Rhapsody in Divorce is currently receiving a Rolling World Premiere with Mildred’s Umbrella (Houston, TX) in early 2024, and then with Outside In Theatre (Los Angeles) in Fall 2025. The Romeo and Juliet Senior Citizens Project—A Comedy will be presented at Coachella Valley Rep’s Origins Reading Festival, January 2025.
Jami is a proud member of The Playwrights Union, The Dramatists Guild, and The Independent Writers' Caucus where she is also developing film and TV projects. She teaches dramatic writing at Lesley University's low-residency MFA program and her plays can also be found on the New Play Exchange.
Artist Statement.
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My storytelling is inspired by the chaos of growing up in my family’s Italian restaurant in Jersey, my love of myths, mysteries and magical realism, my background in education (from substitute teacher to adjunct professor) and my desire to bring to light the lives of extraordinary women who you most likely never heard of. My play, The Magician’s Sister, explores the lives of female magicians of the 20th century—many of whom were known as “hand-cuff queens”—and it recently won the 2023 Jane Chambers Award and the 2023 Stanley Drama Award.
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