FREEZER DREAMS by Jess Foster

Jess Foster is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop with her MFA in playwriting. While there she received the IRAM award for outstanding work on her festival play Proficient. Jess’s play Mourning Sun had a reading as part of the White Horse Theater American Women Series in New York, a play that she developed with the support of Fusion Theater in Albuquerque. Her plays Freezer Dreams and One Man’s Trash have both been presented in the University of Iowa’s Gallery series. Hard and Fast: a love story and Dressed in Money and Ink both received readings in the Iowa New Play Festival. She has also penned collaborative pieces with Philadelphia’s Cardboard Box Collaborative and 10 minute plays with productions at theaters such as the Chameleon Theatre Circle and Madcap Players. She began to explore film in 2008 when she wrote, co-directed, and co-produced her first 10-minute film, Have your Cake. Jess is an Artistic Associate for the emerging Boston-based theater group, Sleeping Weazel and a founding member of the collaborative group Cut the Rhino. She is originally from Maine and a graduate of Wheaton College, Massachusetts.