Jacquelyn Reingold is a playwright, TV writer, teacher, and advocate. Her plays, which include FEAR LESS, KISS ME SOMEWHERE ELSE, STRING FEVER (with Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler), ACAPULCO, I KNOW, A STORY ABOUT A GIRL, GIRL GONE, 2B (OR NOT 2B), and FREEZE TAG, have been seen in New York at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, The Working Theater, MCC Theatre; at Actors Theatre Louisville, Portland Center Stage, Theater J in DC, PlayLabs Minneapolis; and in London, Dublin, Berlin, Belgrade and Lima.
Honors include: a 2023 “Go Make Theater” Lilly Award as a playwright and advocate, the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, EST/Sloan Foundation commissions, New York Foundation for the Arts grant, New Dramatists' Whitfield Cook Award. Plus Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross, and Hermitage Artist Fellowships.
Jackie’s plays have been published in WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS: THE BEST PLAYS, several BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS, by Samuel French, Vintage Books, Smith & Kraus. A collection of her one-acts THINGS BETWEEN US is published by DPS. Her short plays have been recorded by Playing On Air with Hope Davis, Richard Kind, William Jackson Harper, Matthew Cowles, Jodi Long. Jackie wrote the Preface to SHE PERSISTED: 10 MINUTE PLAYS BY WOMEN+ OVER 40 and SHE PERSISTED: 100 MONOLOGUES BY WOMEN+ OVER 40.
In television, Jackie was a writer/Executive Producer for Paramount+'s critically acclaimed THE GOOD FIGHT starring Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald, Executive Producers, Robert and Michelle King. Other TV writing includes BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, a pilot for John Wells Productions; CBS’ EAST NEW YORK; Netflix’s GRACE AND FRANKIE, NBC’s SMASH, CBS’ BRAINDEAD; NBC’s LAW & ORDER CI; MTV’s DARIA. Jackie wrote all the MIA episodes for Emmy nominated Gabriel Byrne and Hope Davis for HBO’s Peabody Award winning In Treatment.
Jacquelyn has taught dramatic writing at Tisch/NYU, Stony Brook-Manhattan, Columbia University, Ohio University and she’s been a frequent teaching artist across the country. A member of Ensemble Studio Theater, The Tent, and a New Dramatists alum, Jacquelyn is a founding member of Honor Roll! an advocacy group for older women+ playwrights whose goal is inclusion in theater. She and writer Cheryl Davis are currently on a campaign to meet with all of NYC’s theaters to advocate for women+ playwrights over 50.
She lives in NYC, with her musician/composer husband, Rich Campbell.