Jack Neary’s plays have been produced all over the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. His most recent play, The Stands, was the winner of four New Hampshire Theatre Awards, including Outstanding Professional Production and the Excellence in Playwriting Award. Trick or Treat, written for and featuring Emmy-winner Gordon Clapp, debuted at Northern Stage in Vermont and was produced off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters. Auld Lang Syne, produced by the Peterborough Players and also starring Clapp, was the winner of five New Hampshire Theatre Awards, including Best Professional Production. It has since been produced professionally by New Century Theatre at Smith College and Gloucester Stage. Other recent plays are Daddy’s Little Girl, produced by Acting Out Productions; Moonglow, produced by the Players’ Ring Theatre and the Majestic Theatre; The Porch, produced by the Lyric Stage Boston, CityStage (Springfield, Mass.), the Greater Boston Stage Company and the Majestic Theatre, all Actors’ Equity Association companies; and Kong’s Night Out, introduced at the Lyric Stage Boston and subsequently staged at New Century Theatre and the Meadow Brook Theatre, featuring TV’s Cindy Williams. His romantic comedy First Night debuted professionally at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre (MRT), then enjoyed a long run at the Theatre Lobby in Boston and was produced off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre. To Forgive, Divine, which also debuted professionally at the MRT, was purchased for film by Walt Disney Pictures after a run at The Colony Theatre Company in Burbank, Calif. Jerry Finnegan's Sister has played in various United States theatres and has successfully launched five theatre companies. In 2006-07, Jerry Finnegan’s Sister was produced in Paris under the title La Souer de Jerry King, featuring Arthur Jugnot and Cecilia Cara, who subsequently toured France with the play. Neary’s adaptation of Frankenstein debuted at the Summer Theatre at Mount Holyoke College and was produced at Radford University in Virginia, and his adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher was staged at Mount Holyoke and Radford University and is published by Concord Theatricals (Samuel French). Another published play, Senior Circuit (Dramatic Publishing), was produced professionally at St. Vincent College, and his adaptation of The Turn of the Screw was introduced by the Stratton Players, produced professionally at New Century Theatre and is published by Playscripts, Inc. (Broadway Licensing Group/Concord Theatricals) He has written a number of produced plays for young audiences, including the series The Misdirected Theatre Presents, which features adaptations of Robin Hood, The Ugly Duckling, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Rumpelstiltskin. His published works for young audiences are Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp and The Little Match Girl, both Concord Theatrical publications (Samuel French and Baker’s Plays, respectively), and The Big Snore, published by Next Stage Press. He is a cofounder of New Century Theatre at Smith College and the Greater Lowell Music Theatre in Lowell, Mass. He is resident playwright at Acting Out Productions in Newburyport, Mass., where his original plays for children have been produced since 2010. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity Association and SAG/AFTRA.
