Hi there! I'm Jillian Blevins.
PLAYWRIGHT
Welcome!
Jillian Blevins (she/her) is a New England-based playwright whose work engages with literature, myth, and history, exploring how the stories we think we know resonate in our present.
Select plays include MERE WATERS (Winner ‘Best Script’ SheNYC Festival 2024, Finalist Seattle Public Theatre Distillery New Works Festival 2024, Honorable Mention American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Award 2024, Semi-finalist O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2024), ROMEO & HER SISTER (Semi-finalist SheNYC Festival 2022), THE POLYCULE: A COMEDY OF MANNERS (Finalist Boston New Works Festival 2024, Semifinalist The Road Summer Playwrights Festival 2024, Frank Moffett Mosier Longlist Prize for Works in Heightened Language from Synecdoche Works 2023), SPACE LASER, IN SPACE! (Semi-finalist Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway New Play Festival 2023, Jewish Plays Project Festival of New Jewish Plays 2024), THE BED TRICK (Valdez Theatre Conference 2023), IZZY AT ZOOM THERAPY (Third Coast Magazine 2025), and PILLORIED (Winner, Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway New Play Festival 2024, Concord Theatricals 2025).
Jillian’s plays have been featured on audio drama podcasts Gather By The Ghostlight and The Ugly Radio. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
My Plays At A Glance
Full Lengths
Mere Waters
Romeo & Her Sister
The Polycule: A Comedy of Manners
Morphology
One Acts
The Female Gaze
The Bed Trick
Postpartum
Crisis Exercise
Izzy At Zoom Therapy
Be The Bacchae: An Interactive Drunken Tragedy
Recommendation
Great Hollow
No Clock In The Forest
TOADS!!! (an amphibious nativity play)
Ten Minute Plays
Pilloried
Space Laser, In Space!
The Eighteenth Quinquennial Endlings Picnic
Schnoz
I’m Not Wearing The Green Dress
Tipping
Last Call
​The Prince’s Shadow
Reviews & Praise
“The great gift of Jillian Blevins is that she teaches the heart and head simultaneously and surreptitiously as she entertains…. A wily psychological dramatist.”
- Charles Scott Jones
“Jillian Blevins writes urgent stories that need to be told and brought into the light.”
- John Mabey
“…a master of all genres and forms… a born storyteller and dramatist.”
- Ricardo Soltero-Brown
“Nothing is black and white, nothing is right or wrong --- everything is simply human.”
- Kelsey Sullivan
“…One of the most fearless and adventurous playwrights working today.”
-Daniel Prillaman
MERE WATERS: This Jewish gynecologist saved hundreds of pregnant women’s lives in Auschwitz
Check out the interview with Jillian by The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Let's Connect
I'd love to hear from you. Drop me a line below, or shoot me an email at jillian.a.blevins@gmail.com