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 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.
MFA Playwriting, Rutgers Mason Gross. BA Theatre and Performance, Purchase College.
photo by Charis Storms