Jami Brandli has developed TV projects for Fish Ladder and Jonathan Steinberg and Dan Shotz, and was a finalist for the Disney/ABC Writing Program. She’s an award-winning playwright whose storytelling is inspired by the chaos of growing up in her family’s Italian restaurant in Jersey, her love of myths, mysteries, magical realism and science, her background in education and her desire to bring to light the lives of extraordinary people who you most likely never heard of. She is the winner of the 2023 Jane Chambers Award and the Stanley Drama Award for her play The Magician’s Sister. Her play BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) was named on The Kilroys List and was a LA Times Critics’ Choice. Her work has been produced/developed at New Dramatists, NY Theatre Workshop, Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Center Theatre Group, among other venues.
Upcoming play productions:
The Caregiver's Guide receives a workshop production at Center for the Arts at Kayenta, St. George, UT; Feb 19th to 28th, 2026.
O: A Rhapsody in Divorce premieres at Outside In Theatre in Los Angeles, Spring 2026
For inquiries, please contact me via my website.
Projects
MADAM
In 1934 New Orleans, madam Norma Wallace betrays the underworld to save it. To stop a NY mob takeover, she strikes a dangerous FBI deal to trap a top fugitive, risking her empire, her life, and her future with mobster Sam Hunt.
Television (One-hour)
MADDY
To settle her late husband’s gambling debt, a pregnant teacher must trade her grading pen for a Marine sniper rifle and eliminate a NJ mob hit list—all while hiding morning sickness and a body count from her family and homicide detective best friend.
Television (One-hour)