photography by Krystal Pagan
featuring Carmen Berkeley in oh, Honey 2025
Jeana (she/her)--- like Gina-- but more complicated because her mom wanted to make an easy name more difficult to pronounce.
A playwright, educator, producer, born & raised in Staten Island (& forever complaining about it) and currently living in Brooklyn. Co-founder Ugly Face Theatre.
She is a 2026 Creative Capital awardee, a member of the Public Theater's 2025-2027 Emerging Writers Group, a 2025 New Georges Audrey Resident, and a 2025 MacDowell fellow. She was a member of Clubbed Thumb's 2021/2022 Early Career Writers' Group and is a New Georges affiliated artist. Recent: A Necessary Killing, directed by Laura Dupper (Clubbed Thumb's 2025 Winterworks) and oh, Honey (site-specific production at the restaurant, Little Egg, Ugly Face Theatre). She currently lectures at Purchase College and the Maggie Flanigan Studio.
photo by Ali Reza Malik