


Pam’s award-winning plays and musicals have been seen on stages throughout New York and nationally. Her notable works include: Urban Momfare (composer/lyricist/co-book writer), winner of a Best Musical award at the New York International Fringe Festival, four stars and a Critics Pick from Time Out, and played at the Fringe Encore Series; Observant, recipient of a 2024 grant from The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Semifinalist in the Jewish Plays Project’s 12th National Jewish Playwriting Contest, and nominated for 5 BroadwayWorld awards, including Best New Play; and The Sustain (co-written with Alice Jankell and composer Aaron Drescher), recipient of a 2025 grant from NYSCA, an O’Neill National Music Theater Conference Semifinalist, and had a September 2025 NYC developmental workshop. Pam is the co-writer, with Alice Jankell, of Cicadas, The Musical, featured on Season 2 of the Amazon streaming series, The Other F Word. Pam’s songs have been performed at 54Below, The Laurie Beechman Theatre, The Duplex, and Don’t Tell Mama. She has written for The New York Times and The New York Observer, among others. Pam is vice president of the board of Emerging Artists Theatre and an inaugural member of Theatre Now New York’s International Musical Writers Lab. Dramatists Guild member. Education: Brown University, Fordham Law School, New York Theatre Workshop, and The BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Pam is on the New Play Exchange. See her page at newplayexchange.org/user.
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