J.Lois Diamond is a playwright, poet and performer. Her full length, one-act, and ten-minute plays have been performed at various off-off Broadway venues, including Theater for the New City, The West Bank Cafe and The Hudson Guild. Her work has been produced regionally and as part of The InspiraTO Festival in Toronto. Her play Hello Ocean had a reading at The 2018 Inge Theater Festival. She has been a featured poet at The Cornelia St. Cafe. She is a member of Polaris North and The Dramatists Guild. She recently studied playwriting with Tina Howe at The Dramatists Guild Institute. Her play Growl was selected for production in The Downtown Urban Arts Festival- Theater Series( for 2019). jloisdiamond.com
Successes
J.Lois Diamond's full length play Alicia will have an online reading with The Depot in the winter of 2025.
A monologue from J.Lois Diamond's play On The Turnpike has been selected for inclusion in Smith & Kraus' Best Men's Stage Monologues for 2024. Debbie Lamedman, editor.
J.Lois Diamond's play Purdah will be available to stream as part of PowerStories Voices of Women Theatre Festival March 25-30, 2024.
J.Lois Diamond's comic short Love Gone Viral will have a zoom reading with Virtual Arts on Friday February 23, 2024 at 7pm EST
My monologue Open Palms will be included in The Women in Theatre Festival at Project Y Theatre, @ A.R.T./New York Theatres - Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre 502 West 53rd Street
Wednesday June 14 @7:30pm
https://www.witfestival.projectytheatre.org/#honorroll