Janet S. Tiger, Playwright
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Janet S. Tiger has written over 100 plays and screenplays, 2000 + monologues and now books.  Her award winning  plays have been produced internationally from New York to New Zealand and are in popular anthologies in the United States and Canada.

She received her BA in Comparative Literature from San Diego State University in 1973 and has worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood.  Below is a partial list of her recent productions and awards - and now available- a page                                        with synopses of over 100 one-acts - click here

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Recent Awards and Productions-

Script-in-Hand Players - San Diego (ongoing) - The Argument,
                                             Always in My Heart, Keep It in Your Pants, 
                                             Second Acting, Later Dater, Take Out the Garbage
                                             The God Forbid Llist


Yartzheit -  OOF! 10 Minute Play Festival  Semi- finalist   Aug 2024
Summer Monologs Zoom - San Diego  June 2023
Genesis - LFJCC Jewish Short Play Festival  June 2024

All seen on Zoom March 8, 2024  
​My Side of the Story (video by Marc Biagi here)
​Banned in Booksville 

That's Exactly What Happened
                                          
 
​Storage Unit
- North Park Playwrights Festival World Premiere Oct 2023 ​
                         
Almost Normal - 2023 Winner -
                          Honorable Mention Script Tease of New One-acts
                           Zoom reading Oct 13, 2023 

Winner -  In top 15 (out of 266!) of the A is for... Contest 2023 
                           click for more info

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Yartzheit -  Best Play, Best Director, Best Male Actor
                                North Park Playwrights Festival World Premiere Oct 2022
                    - First Place 
 ​LFJCC 7th Annual Five Minute Play Festival
                                 June 2022 (5th time in Festival in 7 years)

Second Child chosen for Roustabouts Celebration of New Writers
                                                      Feb 13th Moxie Theatre
                     
     
Zoom reading  on Feb. 10th - Scripteasers (
https://scripteasers.org/) 3 one-acts
                                 Storage Unit, Cell Phone of the Month Club and 
                                             
When Life Hands You Potatoes.....
                               https://scripteasers.org/event/tba-by-janet-tiger/​

Fringe Holidaze - When Life Hands You Potatoes.....
PERFORMANCES were  during DECEMBER NIGHTS in Balboa Park, at the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater. 

Zoom reading of two one-acts - War Bride and Gift of the Magic

During Co-vid-
Exciting news -  First play done by the Old Globe Theatre!                                         
Mixed Marriage - chosen for the Old Globe Living Room Play Workshop Festival
         
Line - winner First Place in the 2020 Script Tease of New Plays

God's Coffee Shop (first produced by That24HourThing! in 2014)  was chosen by Clairemont Act One and produced at Northminster Community Hall Nov 2019

Ocean Hills Theatre Arts Club presented Tiger's Tales as their 2019 Fall production 

Let Me Finish, Please!  chosen as part of the CJC 5-Minute Play Festival at the Lawrence Family JCC  (The 4th time in 6 years Tiger's work has been performed as part of this festival)   To purchase click here

Sweepstakes - chosen for Scripps Ranch Theatre's Local Flavor Series
  Directed by Patricia Moran Collins (who directed CAREGIVERS ANONYMOUS)

Oh, Susannah!* - at Lamplighters, for 6 shows - June 7,8,9 and June 14, 15, 16

Sweepstakes Jan. 2019  Scripteasers reading

Slide Rules (winner 1st Place 2012 Script Tease of New One-acts) produced by Clairemont Act One 

Let Me Finish!  was one of the 24 plays (chosen from 290 entries)
     produced in the North Park Playwright Festival, October 2018
(Actor Haig Koshkarian won Best Actor for his portrayal of the father!)
Published by Lazy Bee Scripts - to purchase, click here
Let Me Finish!  was first read at Diversionary Theatre's WordPlay Tuesdays in 2017, and was part of the Scripteaser Showcase on May 4th (more info here)


Osculation (or - About Love and Math in the Time of Chemistry)
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Winner  2018 Script Tease of New One-Acts (Honorable Mention) -   
and  Finally!  a Judges's Choice in the same competition

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Blind Woman's Bluff  Audience favorite in Ontario, Canada production August 2018 - chosen for Regional Conference in November 2018
          (To purchase, click here)

That 24 Hour Thing at the Fringe Festival featured a brand new piece - written in 24 hours! - by Janet S. Tiger  -July 1018   New play - Scene 1

Making the Grade - Semi-finalist CJC 5 Minute Short Play Festival at the MLLJCC 
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It's Good to Hear Your Voice - was read at Diversionary Theatre's WordPlay Tuesdays on Tuesday, March 13

The Newest Oldest was Second Place winner in the 2017 Script Tease of Short Plays  (Published by Lazy Bee Scripts -to purchase click here)
     
That 24 Hour Thing at the Fringe Festival featured a brand new piece - written in 24 hours! - by Janet S. Tiger  -July 1017  Great show!  New play - You're Hired!                                                                       
Day Job was the First Place winner in the 2016 Script Tease of Short Plays.  Published by Lazy Bee Scripts -to purchase, click here

Breeding Grounds (one-act) was the was the First Place winner from both judges and audience at the CJC 5 Minute Short Play Festival at the MLLJCC in San Diego.and the longer version was an Honorable Mention in the 2016 Script Tease of New Plays.

​That 24 Hour Thing at the Fringe Festival featured a brand new piece - written in 24 hours! - by Janet S. Tiger  -July 3, 2016  Great show!  New play - LOCKER ROOM CHANGES ​available for sale here

Blind Woman's Bluff was performed at Kennedy Center last year by Joseph Batiste and Ashley Portis in competition for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Auditions.

This is the second time Janet's work has been performed at Kennedy Center, the first was  Derrick Cooper, Jr.'s performance of  the 'Blood' monologue from Transfusion*as a Presidential Scholarship winner! 
playsbyjanetstiger.com/Congratulations



For more information about plays dating back to the beginning in 1980 - please check out my old website 


*Transfusion was completed with an NEA - COMBO grant.  Oh, Susannah! was also completed with an NEA-COMBO grant.

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New & Notable
6 published plays at LazyBee Scripts!
Click here for more info  

Just added-

One-act synopses-
over 
100 one-acts now available


Janet S. Tiger received a grant from The San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst Program  2016-17 to write and produce a new play, CAREGIVERS ANONYMOUS.​
 View flier
CaregiversAnon.org click here
Sponsor - Playwrights Project
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Where I posted one new free monologue a day--
for over five years!  Over 2000 monologues! (and some plays)
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