Jennifer Rumberger is a playwright, poet, and essayist. Recent readings and productions include The Fires at the Tank Theatre, The Locusts with The Gift Theatre, Night in Alachua County with Wildclaw Theatre and Open Blue Sky at Stella Adler/ Tisch School of the Arts. Jennifer’s playwriting work has been developed or presented by The Gift Theatre Company, The Lark Playwrights Center, id Theatre Company, Black Box Acting Studio, The Living Room Playmakers, The Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and Chicago Dramatists. She was a nominee for the PoNY Fellowship and a semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship and the Princess Grace Award, as well as a recipient of the 2021 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award. She was a 2022 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her essay, “Ghosts,” was published in The Deadlands. She has performed her poetry and essays with 2nd Story, You’re Being Ridiculous, Brooklyn Poets, and Gift Lit. She is an associate artist with Second Site in Chicago and holds an MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University.
