My Work.
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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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Plays.The Magician's Sister
Cast Size 4 The Magician’s Sister follows the story of two sisters: the aspiring Magician driven by being the best, and the play’s narrator, who somewhat reluctantly serves as her “Wise Assistant.” When the Magician purposely disappears herself and leaves behind mysterious clues to solve, the Wise Assistant becomes obsessed with finding her. As the sisters’ story dramatically unfolds over the span of thirty years—interweaving the present and the past—we witness the sisters struggle to fulfill their collective goals and conflicting individual desires, while they strive to perfectly execute Houdini’s famous “Metamorphosis” illusion. But at what cost? The Magician’s Sister explores the complexities of sisterhood, the ripple effect of family trauma, and the complicated pursuit and price of “being special,” while also incorporating the stories of real, historical female magicians and plenty of on-stage magic. The Caregiver's Guide
Cast Size 5 A family dramedy about evolving heroes, memory keepers, monsters and early onset Alzheimer's. O: A Rhapsody in Divorce
Cast Size 5 The Odyssey reimagined as a rhapsodic dramedy. O, a childless female neurobiologist in her 40s, is blindsided by her husband who wants a divorce, but he refuses to leave the house. With that, her life is upended and she’s thrown into an epic couch-hopping odyssey. As O hops from one couch to the next, we’ll not only learn about the science behind love and heartbreak, O discovers unconventional and magical ways to reassemble the blown-up pieces of her life while she struggles to find her way back toward a “new home.” |
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You can read Jami's plays on the New Play Exchange.