Biography
Jahna Ferron-Smith is a Lila Acheson Wallace American playwriting fellow at the Juilliard School, as well as a member of the Obie Award winning playwrights collective, Youngblood. Her plays have been performed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. Her plays include, THE WOODS. (developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm), SIR. (published by Samuel French), and SALT: A Rom Com (The Lark Jerome New York Fellowship Finalist).
Plays Written At Juilliard
RUNNING WHILE BLACK
A comedy about Black women, running, therapy, and surrender.
FAMILY PLAY
A dramedy about a forced family vacation to one of the most inconspicuously un-fun places on Earth—a water park.
THE OWLS AND THE WHALES
A rite of passage following six intrepid seventh-graders embarking on a three-month-long, highly-detailed sex-ed course as a part of their Unitarian Universalist coming-of-age curriculum.
DEEP LEARNING
An exploration of loneliness, connection, and the biases programmed into the A.I./technologies that heavily influence how many of us experience those feelings (or lack thereof).
THE EXPERIENCE
Erica and Malik are trying to buy their house—that is, if a new NYC-wide LARP (live action role-playing game) doesn’t gentrify and disappear them from it first.
STEP MOM, STEP MOM, STEP MOM
Kaila and Louis are starting to introduce kink into their relationship.