Hi there! I'm Jillian Blevins.
PLAYWRIGHT
Welcome!
I'm a parent, a nature-lover, a compulsive reader, a lifelong curious person, and New England-based playwright and proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America. My plays have been performed in cities across the country, including Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, New Haven, Providence, Orlando, Portland, LA, and off-Broadway in New York City.
In 2020/21, I conceived and produced Digital Dionysia, a six-week online new works festival which featured my plays Izzy at Zoom Therapy and Be The Bacchae, along with 24 other new plays from around the globe. In 2024, my 10-minute medieval comedy, Pilloried, was a winner at the 49th Samuel French Off Off Broadway New Play Festival, and my historical drama Mere Waters was an O’Neill Playwrights Conference semi-finalist, Seattle Public Theatre Distillery finalist, Relentless Award Honorable Mention, and winner of Best Script at the SheNYC Festival.
My full length comedies Romeo & Her Sister and The Polycule: A Comedy of Manners each had world premiere regional runs in 2024.
My Plays At A Glance
Full Lengths
Mere Waters
Romeo & Her Sister
The Polycule: A Comedy of Manners
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
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