Jennifer Blackmer

Jennifer Blackmer

Professor of Theatre

Professor of Theatre, Playwriting

Phone:765-285-8795

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Room:NQ 224

Biography

Jennifer Blackmer’s award-winning plays include Predictor, I Carry Your Heart with Me, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, Borrowed Babies, Delicate Particle Logic, Human Terrain, and Unraveled. She was recently honored with the 2024 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust/ATCA Citation, which recognizes the best new plays produced outside of New York, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award for Emerging American Playwright, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Tribeca Film Institute prize, the Indiana Authors Award, the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Adaptation, the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award, and the Gold Medallion from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Jennifer is a Professor of Theatre at Ball State University, where she teaches classes in playwriting, storytelling, science on stage, feminist theatre and directing. Visit her online at www.jenniferblackmer.com.

Achieving Academic Excellence

Award-winning playwright Jennifer Blackmer uses encouragement, community, and collaboration to cultivate theater talent.

Additional Information

Teaching Areas: Playwriting, Theatre History, Directing
Tenured faculty
Date of Hire: August 2003