bio

Jill is an award-winning lyricist and book writer who lives in New York City. A contributing lyricist on Broadway’s IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU, Jill is the English language translator of the award-winning Israeli musical BILLIE SCHWARTZ. She is the lyricist of TheatreworksUSA’s MARTHA SPEAKS (book by Kevin DelAguila, music by Brad Alexander), and the lyricist/co-bookwriter of THE PACK with composer Aron Accurso and co-bookwriter Leah Napolin (Weston Playhouse New Musical Award, Jerry Bock Award, NAMT 2011 and Goodspeed’s Festival of New Artists 2012).

With Brad Alexander, she adapted the film BREAD AND ROSES (NYMF Reading 2016, AMAS Dare to be Different Festival 2017) and is developing MISTY MAKES IT BETTER, with bookwriter Erik Forrest Jackson. Jill is a past Dramatist Guild Fellow, a Harrington Award winner in the BMI Workshop, and a past member of the Musical Theatre Factory writer’s workshop as well as Goodspeed’s Mercer Grove, where she, Brad and Erik developed MISTY.