https://www.renaesimonejarrett.com/plays daily 0.75 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac57750ee175998f3d2910b/1578506574689-V21M11EZYWWKTLPMMC8Z/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-01-08%2Bat%2B12.01.01%2BPM.jpg plays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac57750ee175998f3d2910b/340dbc08-d18b-4097-b8ee-5f838b35194a/Screen+Shot+2024-03-31+at+11.30.24+AM.png plays - to the ends of the earth Two sisters get lost in the murkiness of the woods and their misremembered histories. Written and directed by Renae Simone Jarrett Starring Brittany K. Allen, Jeb Kreager, and Jules Latimer, with stage directions read by Kayla Amani Presented at Bedlam Do More New Plays series, April 29th at 7 PM Image: J. M. Landen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac57750ee175998f3d2910b/1631587852359-TZ06XMC1C1NWTBRNIJ9L/IMG_3731.jpg plays - daphne Off Broadway World Premiere at Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3, October 7–November 19, 2024, directed by Sarah Hughes Image: Danielle McKinney, Soft Spoken, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac57750ee175998f3d2910b/1629258791763-OKEEE32O5D6TCACSF0PX/Screen+Shot+2021-08-17+at+11.51.07+PM.png plays - edible cactus Drink agave’s sweet sweet nectar and fall into the fucking depths of love while the earth still allows it. Image: Camilla Engstrom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac57750ee175998f3d2910b/1629259602409-6BWEMCNUGDBTBX6DURIM/Screen+Shot+2021-08-18+at+12.05.41+AM.png plays - community garden A woman wanders into a garden she's never noticed before. In befriending the young witchy group of women who tend it, she is confronted with a supernatural opportunity to save her own life. Community Garden is a meditation on self-searching, sacrifice, and that lovely glow you get when you feast on the fruits that grow from the graves of dead husbands. Produced April 2021 at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Microfarm) Image: Maggie Taylor, Southern Gothic, 2001 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac57750ee175998f3d2910b/1607391970834-HWMF8STGAJ8T9AY737UM/karawalker.jpg plays - oh, sweetheart If human intentions come from a place of innocence, then it is human actions that reveal their dangerous nature through clumsy slips of the tongue. Women subjected to emotional and physical labor at the hands of the women on top tear open the veil and give birth to a new system. Semifinalist for the 2020 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission Image: Kara Walker, An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters: Savant, 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac57750ee175998f3d2910b/1607392622006-WOH5ZQ34UCYLY8DC4RXO/deborahrobertsredwhiteandblue2018.jpg plays - things kids do Asia literally just wants to play dolls. Her friends want to do something different for once. Luke needs to pee really bad. A play about children who do evil things to each other in the name of self control. Image: Deborah Roberts, Red, White, and Blue, 2018 https://www.renaesimonejarrett.com/home daily 1.0 2026-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ac57750ee175998f3d2910b/6c9fd088-544b-4bce-a3d4-d8ac7f8337a0/L1060677.jpg home Renae Jarrett is a playwright living in Brooklyn. Her play Daphne was produced by Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 in the Autumn of 2023. She is a member of EST/Youngblood and a 2022 MacDowell/National Endowment of the Arts Fellow. She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers’ Group 2021–22 and graduated from UT Austin's MFA Playwriting program in 2021. In addition to writing plays, she has dabbled in arts criticism, gardening, and over-analyzing reality television with anyone who will listen. Her theatre heroes are Adrienne Kennedy, Wallace Shawn, and Caryl Churchill. Currently Reading Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde Contact Emma Feiwel / efeiwel@wmeagency.com Photo by Adewale Olukayode