Jacquelyn Reingold

[filmnoir5]

On the www.nbcmv.com site under credits for writers I saw : "Staff writers: Gina Gionfriddo, Jackie Reingold" I do not know which episodes she has written. Here is her biography.

Website : www.jacquelynreingold.com
"Jacquelyn Reingold writes for theatre, television, and film. She currently writes for LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT. Her play STRING FEVER had a sold out run Off-Broadway at Ensemble Studio Theatre, starring Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler. It was recently produced at Playhouse West in California, and in Washington DC at Theater J. Read the review in The Washington Post. Her newest play, A STORY ABOUT A GIRL, just had its first workshop at Purdue University in April, 2006. Her other plays: GIRL GONE, 2B (OR NOT 2B), ACAPULCO, FOR-EVERETT, DEAR KENNETH BLAKE, DOTTIE AND RICHIE, TUNNEL OF LOVE, JILEY & LEDNERG, JOE AND STEW'S THEATRE, LOST AND FOUND, A.M.L., and FREEZE TAG have been produced or workshopped in New York at the MCC Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, HB Playwrights Theatre, the Drama League at HERE, All Seasons Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, the Working Theatre, the Circle Rep Lab; in Los Angeles at the Canon Theatre, Theatre of NOTE, City Garage, ASK Theatre Projects; at theatres across the country; in London, Belgrade, New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong.
Her screenplay adaptation of GIRL GONE was optioned by Beech Hill Films, and an original screenplay was commissioned by Palisades Pictures and director, Eric Bross. She has written for Darren Star/NBC’s "Miss Match," starring Alicia Silverstone, MTV’s "Daria," and the WB’s "Phantom Investigators."

Her awards include a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) playwriting grant, 2004 and 2003 commissions from Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Foundation, New Dramatists’ 2000 Joe Callaway Award and 2000 Whitfield Cook Award, the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays’ Roger Stevens Award, two Drama-Logue Awards, and the Greenwall Foundation’s Oscar Ruebhausen Commission. She has been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Heideman Award, the Denver Center Theatre’s Francesca Primus Prize, and received an Honorable Mention for the Jane Chambers Award. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, and the Edward Albee Foundation. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the HB Theatre Playwrights Unit.

Jacquelyn’s work has been published in "Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2003," "Best American Short Plays 1999-2000, 1997-98, 1996-97, and 1994-95," "New Dramatists: Best Plays of the Graduating Class 2000," "Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1994," "Women Writing, The Anthology," "The Quarterly," "O, The Oprah Magazine," "The Best Women's Monologues of 2003," "More Monologues for Women by Women 1 & 2" and by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, and Smith and Kraus. A collection of her one-act plays THINGS BETWEEN US was recently published by Dramatists Play Service.

Jacquelyn has taught writing at New York University, Ohio University, Fordham University, Goddard College, Oberlin College, the MCC Theatre, New Dramatists, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the O’Neill Theatre Institute, and the Young Playwrights Festival. She has written and directed many plays with the Hell’s Kitchen kids of The 52nd Street Project. She has a BA in Theatre from Oberlin College and a MFA in Playwriting from Ohio University."

[Techguy]

From www.hippopress.com of Manchester, NH:

String Fever

Theory of everything
Physics, TV, Iceland and a Nashua writer figure into YTP show

Jacqueline Reingold admits that she wasn’t well-versed in physics before she wrote String Fever.

“The play started as a commission for the Sloan Foundation, which commissions playwrights to write about science and technology. I had an idea that started with string theory ... ‘What if I wrote a play that reflected the structure of physics?’” the New York City playwright, screenwriter and TV writer said.

“String theory is a theory of modern physics that posits that the tiniest bit of matter is not a particle but a tiny string,” Reingold said. “It solves a basic problem in physics that exists between quantum mechanics and general relativity,” she said. It’s “exciting” that there could be a “theory of everything,” she said. However, there’s a problem in that string theory requires 10 or 11 dimensions.

String Fever doesn’t end up in 10 or 11 dimensions; it ends up in Reykjavik, Iceland. “It’s a comedy,” Reingold said.

Yellow Taxi Productions, a professional company that opened in 2002 in southern New Hampshire, presents String Fever Oct. 12 through Oct. 20 in Nashua. Reingold was an advisor to YTP’s playwright-in-residence, Lowell Williams, of Nashua, when he was an MFA student at Goddard College in Vermont.

Before Reigngold started researching physics for String Fever, “I knew nothing. I don’t even know where the idea came from,” Reingold said. She developed characters and then looked for “a personal way into the material.”

“I came up with this story about a women turning 40 who encounters string theory and thinks it will bring new meaning to her life at this crossroads,” Reingold said.

Lily learns about string theory when she meets a man who happens to be string theory physicist. “She starts to apply those ideas to her personal crisis,” Reingold said. As the man starts to disappoint her, so does the theory, Reingold said. Lily’s life is intertwined with a cranky father, an Icelandic comedian and a best friend who followed a man to Iowa.

“I would say that some of characters [are] loosely inspired by people I know,” Reingold said. The 40-year mark was in her sights when she wrote it. It was produced off-Broadway in New York at Ensemble Studio Theatre in 2003 starring Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler, who appeared in Sex in the City. Reingold saw the role of Lily as a departure from Nixon’s “Miranda.”

“The character in the play is much softer and more vulnerable,” Reingold said.

Research still demands Reingold’s time as a writer for Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Recently, she and the other show writers spent time discussing dying by being strangled and by being hanged with their advising medical examiner. It’s not that gruesome, she said. Her priority is writing well, quickly. They produce 22 shows per season.

“I’ll work on one play for a few years,” she said, in contrast. “My heart is in the playwriting but TV writing actually pays,” she said. She’s currently working an a script called A Story About a Girl, which recently had a workshop production at Portland Center Stage in Oregon.

Reingold probably won’t be able to get away from Law and Order duties to see Yellow Taxi’s production. “Lowell was great, wonderfully talented,” she said. YTP premiered his Six Nights in the Black Belt in May. He won a NH Theatre Award for The Warmth of the Cold and an AACT Drama Festival award for Feeding the Ducks.

Leah Belanger directs String Fever for YTP. She took over a lead role on short notice for Yellow Taxi’s August production of Indoor/Outdoor. Belanger is the director of education at the Acting Loft in Manchester. — Heidi Masek

Physics lesson
String Fever, by Jacqueline Reingold, presented by Yellow Taxi Productions, Oct. 12-20, at the Hunt Memorial Building, 6 Main St., Nashua, yellowtaxiproductions.org, 661-3879.

[DonnaJo]

She must have been involved in writing "Inert Dwarf," correct? Who elso would think up the "Theory Of Everything" concept?

Very interesting find Techguy. I wonder what else she has been involved in? You say she isn't listed as a writer on any episodes? She must be one of the general writing staff.

[Techguy]

I forgot to mention that Ms. Reingold is a Logan-centric writer. She wrote the story and teleplay for "Maltese Cross," and co-wrote the stories and wrote the teleplays for "World's Fair" and "Renewal."