About Me.
JAMI BRANDLI is the winner of the Jane Chambers Award and the 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, UC Santa Barbara's LAUNCH PAD, 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:
-O: A Rhapsody in Divorce will receive a world premiere at Outside In Theatre (Los Angeles); May-June, 2026.
-The Caregiver’s Guide received a workshop production at Center for the Arts at Kayenta (St. George, UT); February 2026.
-The Magician's Sister was presented as part of Center Theatre Group's New Works Festival at The Kirk Douglas Theater. Also received a workshop production at the Center for the Arts at Kayenta, 2025.
-The Romeo and Juliet Senior Citizens Project—A Comedy was presented at Coachella Valley Rep’s Origins Reading Festival, January 2025.
For TV and film, she has developed projects for Fish Ladder and Jonathan Steinberg and Dan Shotz, and she was a finalist for the Disney/ABC Writing Program.
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 has taught dramatic writing at Lesley University, Emerson College and California Lutheran University, among other institutions. She also co-created Moving Arts' MADlab new play development program.
Her plays can also be found on the New Play Exchange.
To view full teaching and writing CV, click HERE.
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:
-O: A Rhapsody in Divorce will receive a world premiere at Outside In Theatre (Los Angeles); May-June, 2026.
-The Caregiver’s Guide received a workshop production at Center for the Arts at Kayenta (St. George, UT); February 2026.
-The Magician's Sister was presented as part of Center Theatre Group's New Works Festival at The Kirk Douglas Theater. Also received a workshop production at the Center for the Arts at Kayenta, 2025.
-The Romeo and Juliet Senior Citizens Project—A Comedy was presented at Coachella Valley Rep’s Origins Reading Festival, January 2025.
For TV and film, she has developed projects for Fish Ladder and Jonathan Steinberg and Dan Shotz, and she was a finalist for the Disney/ABC Writing Program.
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 has taught dramatic writing at Lesley University, Emerson College and California Lutheran University, among other institutions. She also co-created Moving Arts' MADlab new play development program.
Her plays can also be found on the New Play Exchange.
To view full teaching and writing CV, click HERE.