<DIV><p>Rosemary and Evelyn met "a hundred thousand years ago" in Central Park when their children were barely born. <I>Somewhere Fun</I> reunites the two women thirty-five years later on Madison Avenue one windy fall day. With their children now grown and the world changing rapidly before (what's left of) their eyes, each finds herself face to face with the terrors, joys, and surprises of life and time. <I>Somewhere Fun</I> is a wildly original story about connection?to our families, our memories, our moment in time.</p><p><B>Jenny Schwartz</B>'s plays include <I>God's Ear</I>, <I>Somewhere Fun</I>, and <I>Cause for Alarm</I>. <I>Somewhere Fun</I> will receive its world premiere at the Vineyard Theatre in the spring of 2013, directed by Anne Kauffman. <I>God's Ear</I> was produced in New York by New Georges and the Vineyard Theatre, also directed by Anne Kauffman. <I>God's Ear</I> has been produced nationally and internationally from Lisbon, Portugal, to Boise, Idaho, to Sydney, Australia. Schwartz is the 2012 recipient of the Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theatre for the development of her musical <I>Iowa</I>, which she is writing with composer Todd Almond. Almond and Schwartz recently developed <I>Iowa</I> at Sundance/MassMoCA under the direction of Ken Rus Schmoll. Schmoll also directed her play <I>Cause for Alarm</I> at the New York International Fringe Festival way back when. Other awards and honors include the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Benjamin H. Danks Award in Drama, a Kesselring honor, two grants from Lincoln Center's Lecomte du Nuoy Foundation, and Soho Rep's Dorothy Streslin Playwriting Fellowship. This is her second season co-chairing the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab with Schmoll. Schwartz received an MFA in Theatre Directing from Columbia University, is a graduate of Juilliard's playwriting program, and a member of New Dramatists.</p><BR></DIV>