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 
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 ----------------------------------------------- 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) Winner 2018 Script Tease of New One-Acts (Honorable Mention) - and Finally! a Judges's Choice in the same competition ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 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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