2019 Finalist for the Eugene O'Neil conference
2020 Finalist for 21st Century Voices New Play Festival
2020 Finalist for the Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award.
AMiOS Theater Company, Staged Reading
AMiOS Theater Company, First Draughts 2017-2018 Play Development Program
Full Length Play.
In a play spanning from the Dʿmt Dynasty in 10th Century BCE to the Hillary headquarters November 8th, 2016, "Vanquished" charts the waters of history, telling the story of the women who have lost the most important battles of their lives.
In development.
Three-Act Musical.
A fast-paced, technicolor murder-mystery-comedy musical set in the 1950’s. . . with modern sensibilities.
Jo and Spence are getting engaged, so naturally they’d invite Spence’s business partner, his wife and mistress, Jo’s best friend who is not-so-secretly in love with her, a wise-cracking showgirl, and Spence’s heartbroken and sloppily drunk assistant in what becomes the worst party of their lives. And then there’s a murder.
The Indies Lab, NYC, Workshopped
The Process Group, Staged Reading at Shetler Studio
Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab, Semi-Finalist
A feature film.
Widowed and struck by what she believes is a stark warning from God, Anne, a small southern plantation owner decides upon a radical path to recreate Eden, freeing all she enslaved, and determining to live a completely pacifistic existence. Alone save the newly freed Camille, who was enslaved and bound to her since childhood, the two women must try to till the soil on their own and somehow make it through the season. The Civil War crashing around them, the two women must reconcile the personal trauma of slavery and forge a new path together, guided by a belief that God’s hand is touching their farm and their mission. Slowly small miracles occur, boldening Anne and Camille to feel more sure that God has blessed their strange endeavor, until God's test appears in a form neither expects.
The WorkShop Theater Company, NYC, Workshop Production
The WorkShop Theater Company, NYC, Staged Reading.
Process Group Theater Company, NYC, Staged Reading
Nominated for Best New Music (Lyrics and Score) By the 2014 New York Innovative Theater Awards.
A full-length play with music.
Vera and Pace never stop.
She's caustic. He's clueless.
She can't stand to be around him until he's gone.
This endless cycle is taking its toll on Vera's band The Vagrants.
When a free-lance music photographer crashes at Vera's Bushwick pad while Pace is in the outs, Vera becomes his next subject.
But can he handle her up close?
Directed By Fritz Brekeller
Book and Lyrics by Jenny Grace Makholm
Music by Ian Wehrle
Starring: Shonda Robbins, Kenyon Phillips, Rosebud Baker, David Goldberg, Katherine McDonald, and Ben Sumrall
Official Selection, NY Indie Film Festival, 2018
Official Selection, Chain NYC Film Festival 2018
Official Selection, NY Indie Theatre Film Festival 2019
Short Film.
On the worst day of his life, at the height of the financial crisis of 2008, a Bear Stearns banker buys an hour with the stripper he's in love with.
Starring: Bryan Close, Jenny Grace, and Kathryn Kates.
AMIOS Theater Company, Shotz One-Act Festival, Workshop Production, NYC, 2019
Two laissez-faire executioners during the French Revolution attempt to complete the sentence of a Duchess in a pitch-black slap-stick farce.
Directed By: Zachary Eisenstat
Starring: Benjamin Dworken, Meghan Grover, Christina Liang, and Leigh Williams
Set in the golden era of serial killers, "Bluebeard" is a vintage retelling of a grisly fairytale . . . with a trippy true-crime twist.
Two women, living a decade apart, each have an unexpected visit that leads them to suspect those closest to them. Time folds and echoes hauntingly as both women’s lives begin to mirror each other’s in mundane and terrifying ways— leading both women to face the same terrible choice.
AMIOS Theater Company, Shotz One-Act Festival, Workshop Production, NYC, 2019
One Act.
Three female astronauts are on their way back to Earth after the first manned mission to Mars.
Directed By: Caitlin Davies
Starring: Lynn Guerra, Fleece, and Kate Karczewski
AMIOS Theater Company, Shotz One-Act Festival, Workshop Production, NYC, 2017
November 8th, 2016. The Clinton campaign struggles to write a Concession speech for an election they didn’t plan on losing.
Directed by: Cotton Wright
Starring: Jennifer Downes, Nicole Gut, Ellen Toomey, and Lenore Wolf.
A short film.
A woman calls her therapist during Thanksgiving break after an episode with her father forces her to confront how badly his Alzheimers has degenerated his mind.
Starring: Sarah Nedwek
Written and Directed by: Jenny Grace
Official Selection, NY Indie Theatre Film Festival 2019
A short film.
Based off the musical "Relent."
Starring: David J. Goldberg and Shonda Leigh Robbins.
Written and directed by Jenny Grace
Williamsburg Film Festival, NYC, Premiere
Produced and Distributed
A short Film.
An adaptation of the short story by the same name by Kevin Bartelme. A neo-noir set in an alternative future where a permanent fog has descended the city. Crime and perversity run rampant in the streets, when a disillusioned man happens upon a woman who, from their first encounter, sets him on a path of sexual obsession. A cat and mouse game gone terribly wrong, is he enchanted by this femme fatale, or cursed?
Written by Kevin Bartalme, Jenny Grace Makholm, Sebastian Piras, and Erik Liberman.
The Process Group, NYC Produced in 2012-2013.
A Web Series.
Equal parts The Newsroom and The Colbert Report, Lady Business News mockuments the making of a satirical women's news show (airing monthly, for biological reasons), while offering hilarious and scathing socio-political commentary through the actual broadcast show: "Lady Business: News On The Rag."
Emmy Award winner Michael Cervieri is the executive producer of Lady Business, in association with the Future Journalism Project. Rebecca Whitehurst and Jenny Grace co-produce and co-write the series.
Written by Jenny Grace Makholm and Rebecca Whitehurst.
Starring: Arturo Castro, Jenny Grace, Kathryn Kates, Erik Liberman, Maggie Low, Sarah Steele, Lindsay Strachan, Rebecca Whitehurst, Ashley C. Williams, and Henry Zebrowski.
Executive Producers: The Future Journalism Project and Michael Cervieri
Co-Producers: Jenny Grace, and Rebecca Whitehurst
The Process Group, NYC Staged Reading: The Required Reading Series 2010
The Process Group, NYC Workshop
The WorkShop Theater Company, NYC Staged Reading.
A full-length play.
The dancers and bartenders at Rush, a gentleman’s club, talk a lot of shit, and try to tough out the nights. They all want their customers to just be customers, but when the commodity is their bodies, loneliness and love are inevitable. It’s $20 a song, the rest is extra.
The Process Group, NYC, Staged Reading: The Required Reading Series 2009
The Process Group, NYC, Workshop
The WorkShop Theater Company, NYC Staged Reading.
One Act (Full Length)
In this 1940's dark comedy, Fred and Betty, two reporters from the Hawaii-Star are staying late in their office to finish their respective stories: When Marge, Betty’s estranged sister arrives, however, the night takes a turn no one suspects. In a Albeean night that spirals out of control, affairs are exposed, allegiances are broken, and seduction turns deadly.
SPEAK THESE WORDS: A Guerilla Poets Anthology, 2001 W.P.C. Minimal Press. Available through Amazon.
