J.Lois Diamond is a playwright, poet and performer. She is a proud member of Polaris North, Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women+ playwrights over 40 and The Dramatists Guild, where she recently studied with Tina Howe.
Her full length, one-act, and ten-minute plays have been performed at various off-off Broadway venues, including Theater for the New City, The Wild Project and The Hudson Guild.
Her plays has been produced regionally and in Canada. Her work has been developed at The William Inge Theater Festival and The Valdez Theatre Conference. She has been a featured poet at The Cornelia St. Cafe.
Her play "Growl" was produced at Downtown Urban Arts Festival (NYC). It had a reading at The Shattered Glass Project in Seattle, and a full production at Theatre Odyssey's One -Act Play Festival, Sarasota, where it was awarded runner up for best play. Her play "Slicing An Onion" was produced as part of The International Human Rights Art Festival at The Wild Project, NYC.
Two of her monologues were published by Applause Books in 2021 in an anthology entitled "She Persisted". A monologue from her play “Purdah“ was included in Smith and Kraus' anthology The Best Women's Stage monologues 2021, and one from her play “Clare” is part of the 2022 Women’s anthology. A monologue from her play "Palak Paneer" is in their 2023 Men's anthology and one from her play "On the Turnpike" will appear in their 2024 collection. Her play "I Feel Good!" was scheduled to be produced at The Signature Theatre as part of The Downtown Urban Arts Festival June 2020, cancelled due to the pandemic.