Playwright, Technical Writer, Editor. Jean Klein has worked as a free-lance writer and editor, winning awards for magazine articles, plays, and television scripts. She has published books on technical writing, been a semi-finalist in the O’Neill competition, and is currently Director of Education for the Virginia Playwrights Forum. Her degrees are from Carnegie-Mellon and the University of Iowa. A one-act play Snapshots was a winner in the Kernodle Play competition at the University of Arkansas and a full-length play Unreasonable Possession has had two staged readings at the Earl Hamner Theatre’s Virginia Playwrights Initiative in Nelson County, Virginia. Her play Lifeswap was produced at The Venue on 35th in Norfolk, Virginia in 2012 and at The Edge Theater in Belle Haven, Virginia. Two plays, Lifeswap and Priming The Pump have been taped for airing in Virginia and North Carolina by Cox Television. A full-length play, The Refraction Of Light was produced by the Norfolk Summer Playfest in 2012 and numerous other short plays (Heritage; Planned Parenthood; In and Out; Finals) have been produced at theaters across the country.
Klein has co-founded and managed one publishing company (HaveScripts.com/ScriptWorks Press) for the last 10 years and is currently developing a new publishing company. Blue Moon Plays (www.bluemoonplays.com) aimed at introducing new works and new forms of theaters to the public.) She has studied and taught playwriting and fiction at Carnegie-Mellon University, The University of Iowa, and in the MA/MFA Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania