About Jessica Phillips Lorenz
Jessica Phillips Lorenz
Jess Phillips Lorenz is a playwright, essayist, and childhood cancer advocate. She has performed several original solo plays throughout New York City including Drawn about her family connection to cartoon icon Betty Boop. Jess’s work has been featured in many publications including Chalkbeat, Insider, Romper, Real Simple, Parents.com, MUTHA Magazine (Pushcart nominee), and a theatre festival for babies in Northern Ireland. Most recently, her monologue, Permission, was selected for the upcoming PlayGround Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival #5. In 2023, Jess was awarded a writers’ residency with The Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, Illinois and her latest play, BEST PARTY EVER! was granted a workshop production with Piper Theatre’s Playwright Spotlight Series. Jess is a member of Emerging Artists Theatre, Piper Theatre, The American Childhood Cancer Organization, and Momcology. Jess lives in Brooklyn with her children, husband, and pet snail. jessphillipslorenz.com IG @playpracticenyc
Author Archives: Jessica Phillips Lorenz
December 10th, 2024 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
I don't set my clock by the coming sadness
February 20th, 2024 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
Nine floors above the grid of moving dots and doers doing, is the short stick pile
July 28th, 2021 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
When I first started writing about my family’s experience, I felt compelled to use photos of my daughter and me. She was my kid. I wanted people to see us.
October 5th, 2016 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
Having agency in a career that requires an agent isn’t the easiest thing to do. Building a feminist comedy career
November 13th, 2013 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
An ex-boyfriend once said a truly rotten thing to me. He was pouting because I wouldn’t go to the ocean