Jerry Lieblich (they/them) plays in the borderlands between theater, poetry, and music. Their work experiments with language as a way to explore unexpected textures of consciousness and attention. Their plays include The Barbarians (La Mama), Mahinerator (The Tank), D Deb Debbie Deborah (Clubbed Thumb — The New York Times’ Critic’s Pick, Time Out New York‘s Critic’s Picks), Tongue Depressor (The Public Theatre / Brooklyn College), Nostalgia is a Mild Form of Grief (developed with Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theater, Page 73), Ghost Stories (Cloud City — Time Out New York‘s Critic’s Picks), Your Hair Looked Great (Abrons Arts Center), and A Discourse on the Method… (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Everything for Dawn (Experiments in Opera). Their poetry has appeared in Foglifter, Second Factory, Tab Journal, Grist, SOLAR, Pomona Valley Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Works and Days. Their poetry collection otherwise, without was a finalist for The National Poetry Series.
Jerry has held residencies at MacDowell, MassMoCA, Blue Mountain Center, North American Cultural Laboratory, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Ucross, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, and Yiddishkayt. They have received a EST/Sloan Commission, the Himan Brown Creative Writing Award (twice), and a Martha Boschen Porter Fund grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. They are an alum of the Soho Rep. Writer Director Lab, Page 73’s I-73 Writer’s Group, and Pipeline Theater’s Playlab group. They have a BA from Yale in Philosophy and in MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College under Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney.