Jeannine Coulombe is a playwright based in Minneapolis. Her plays have been publicly read and/or produced by Stage Left, Great American History Theatre, Theatre Unbound, Thirst Theatre, Ebullient Theatre, Playwrights Center, Workhaus Collective, University of Iowa, University of Minnesota-Duluth, A Theatre Company, Unexpected Company and LAMIA Ink. Her plays and monologues have been published by Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, and Heinemann. In 2003, her two-act play Hummingbirds won the University of Iowa's IRAM Award for Best New Play and in 2002, her two-act play Beakers won the University's Maebaum Award. In 2001 her full-length play, The Vacant Lot won the National AIDS fund CFDA-Vogue Initiative Award for Playwriting from the Kennedy Center. Ms. Coulombe was also an alternate for the Jerome Fellowship in 2003 and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference in 2002 and 2006. Ms. Coulombe received her BFA in Theatre and her BA in History from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and her MFA from the Playwrights' Workshop at the University of Iowa.