The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow | |
Setting: | Calabasas, California |
Place: | South Coast Repertory |
Orig Lang: | English |
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow is a play written by Rolin Jones. The play had its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in 2003.[1]
Set in Calabasas, California, it tells the story of Jennifer Marcus, a 22-year-old genius with obsessive compulsive disorder and agoraphobia. Afraid to step outside her house, the Chinese-born Marcus, who was adopted as a baby, nevertheless wants to meet her biological mother. She creates a robot replica of herself to travel across the world.
The play was a 2006 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.[2]