about jess
photo by Bridget Badore
Jess Honovich is a playwright, screenwriter and educator from south jersey. Her work has been produced and workshopped by Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York University, the New York Transit Museum, Project Y, and the Pittsburgh Opera, among others. She is a LABA Artist Fellow Alum, a Jeffrey Melnick New Playwright Award Nominee, an O'Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist and Semi-Finalist, a Heideman Award finalist, a Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, a Premiere Play Festival semifinalist, a 24 Plays: Nationals alum, a recipient of the Mary Marlin Fisher Award for Excellence in Playwriting, and a Theatre Masters winner for her short play No More Monsters, which is available at Samuel French.
She holds a B.S. from New York University in Educational Theatre and a minor in Dramatic Literature and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. She currently lives in brooklyn with her partner and her cats, buckett and tubbs.