About Jean.
Jean Koppen is a playwright living in Northern Virginia. Jean's plays have been produced locally at Active Cultures Theater (2012 "Sportaculture" playwriting competition winner), Port City Playhouse, the Capital Fringe Festival, and across the country and Canada at Strangeloop Theatre (Chicago), The Alumnae Theater's New Ideas Festival (Toronto), and Kumu Kahua Theatre (Hawaii). Jean's work has been read at the Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival (2013, 2015, 2017) and the Pipeline Playwrights reading series (2017, 2018). Jean is an alumnae of the Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive, a founding member of Pipeline Playwrights and a Dramatist Guild member.
Artistic Statement:
"I write plays that explore the same issues that I struggle with everyday. I want people who see my plays to feel strong emotions and identify with the characters and the situations they are experiencing. Most of all, I hope people think about, struggle with, and even argue over my plays after they see them, and the experience affects their lives long after the curtain comes down."
Artistic Statement:
"I write plays that explore the same issues that I struggle with everyday. I want people who see my plays to feel strong emotions and identify with the characters and the situations they are experiencing. Most of all, I hope people think about, struggle with, and even argue over my plays after they see them, and the experience affects their lives long after the curtain comes down."