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contact: info@jacobjuntunen.com
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Jacob’s play Under America will have a staged reading produced by the Artisan Theatre Project at Prop Thtr. The reading will be of a new draft Jacob will be creating thanks to a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the Sewannee Writers’ Conference. There, he will work with Romulus Linney and Arlene Hutton to strengthen the document before its Chicago reading. The details: Under America, A Staged Reading “Here Be Dragons,” an excerpt from Jacob’s play Lobsters and Lifers, was performed in Austin by the Vestige Group and reviewed by the Austin Chronicle. Jacob’s essay “Repairing Reality: The Media and Homebody/Kabul in New York, 2001” appears in Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays. |
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image copyright 2005 by Ronit Bezalel Productions
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Jacob’s latest play, Under America, is set just prior to the demolition of the Cabrini Green housing project (above). It began with a scholarship from Lee Blessing, was selected by the Driehaus Foundation for the Sundance Chicago Roundtable, and helped Jacob win a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the Sewannee Writers’ Conference.
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Jacob Juntunen Bio
After dropping out of high school, Jacob’s first play was produced by Edward Albee at Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston. Since then, his plays were produced in Chicago, Austin, Minneapolis, Ithaca, and Portland, Oregon. He is a Network Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, a member of the Dramatists’ Guild, and the Resident Playwright at Uptown Chicago’s only theatre for development, Scrap Mettle SOUL. His play, Kantor! Kantor! is currently being considered by Tadeusz Kantor’s Polish state archive for publication; and Under America, his latest script, was one of five selected by the Driehaus Foundation for the Sundance Institute’s Chicago Roundtable. He currently teaches at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) and the School of the Art Institute |
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