A stage adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s novel by Jennifer Le Blanc Moll Flanders is a bawdy story of a poor damsel who surrenders her virtue again and again (and again) to get to the top of society. Moll Flanders was first produced for sold-out houses in Carmel,CA at Pacific Repertory Theatre. (Note: Production is “Rated R for Ribald”!)

1. MOLL
FLANDERS
ADAPTED BY
JENNIFER LE BLANC
Incidents in
the Wicked Life of

2. MOLL FLANDERS
IN PRODUCTIONAdaptation by JENNIFER LE BLANC
First produced by
Pacific Repertory Theatre in Carmel, CA
Stephen Moorer, Artistic Director
Premiere opened at
The Circle Theatre
October 22nd, 2015
Directed by
Kenneth Kelleher

3. PRESS & RESPONSE
“[the] script and production offer a vivid picture of a
17th century England obsessed with sex, thievery,
romantic deceit and the continual threat of the
gallows…”
– Phillip Pearce for the Performing Arts Monterey Bay magazine
“Penned by Bay Area actress
and writer Jennifer Le Blanc
and directed by PacRep’s gifted
resident director Kenneth
Kelleher, “Moll Flanders” earns
thumbs up as an entertaining
and well-crafted show. […]”
Photos by House of Eight & Stephen Moor
Letter to the Editor:
Bravo to PacRep’s enjoyable ‘Moll Flanders’
[…] “Moll Flanders” was simply amazing.
We have been season ticket-holders to PacRep for about 20 years and we
can’t recall a play we enjoyed as much as this one. — Mr. & Mrs. Delahay, Pebble Beach
“Le Blanc has written a pure ensemble
play, nimbly condensing DeFoe’s hectic
plot into a couple of hours with engaging
performances…
PacRep scores a hit with this original
play
– Barbara Rose Shuler Monterey Herald
– Barbara Rose Shuler for the Monterey
Herald

4. PLAYWRIGHT & ACTORJennifer Le Blanc has worked for many years as a regional theatre
actor and is now beginning a career as a playwright. Persuasion was
her first fully-produced play; it received it’s world-premiere at the San
Jose Stage Company in April of 2013. Staged readings of the initial
Persuasion adaptation, as well as an original play, The One You Feed,
were produced by Cerimon House, a humanities organization in
Portland, Oregon under the direction of Randall Stuart.
Jennifer is also a resident teaching artist for the San Francisco
Shakespeare Festival (teaching camps and classes throughout the Bay
Area) and an associate artist with the Arabian Shakespeare Festival.
She is also a contributing playwright and artist for Amios’ Shotz New
York and ShotzSF short play festivals.
In addition to her other theatre credits, she has acted in adaptations of
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice produced by the Denver Center
Theatre Company, and Sense and Sensibility produced by
TheatreWorks in Mountain View, California.
Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the
University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Fine Arts from the
National Theatre Conservatory.
Discover more by visiting:
http://jenniferleblanc.com/mollflanders || /MollFlandersPlay
“[…] locals may recall the excellent 2011
production of Sense and Sensibility by
TheatreWorks as one such triumph. With
San Jose Stage’s Persuasion, a version
written by local actress Jennifer Le Blanc,
who appeared as Elinor Dashwood in the
aforementioned Sense and Sensibility,
there’s a definite sense that the torch has
been passed.”
– Sean Conwell, San Jose.com
Photo by Gregg Le Blanc

5. RECENT COVERAGE…
American Theatre Magazine, Oct 2013 – Chad
Jones
“Jenn is just so lovely and so nice,” Gunderson adds, “but she comes
to rehearsal, and she’s ready and aware and vigilant.” […]
Gunderson recalls that audition […] “… She leads with undeniable
talent. You could tell she was thinking faster than anyone in the
room. She didn’t tell me until two weeks into rehearsals that she
was, for a while, a biochemistry major. …”
Now that Gunderson and Le Blanc have formed a solid writer-actor
bond, Gunderson has said, only half-joking, that she wants Le Blanc
“in everything of mine, if I can help it.” […]
The reunion will occur on the occasion of Silent Sky, slated for Palo
Alto–based TheatreWorks in January. Le Blanc will play the older
sister of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt in Gunderson’s dramatic
blend of science, history and romance. […]
San Jose Mercury News, June 2013 – Lou Francher
“One of the reasons I love acting is that it's an opportunity to practice
compassion. You spend your life playing another character. You have to find
humanity, even in an evil villain,” she says.
[…]
"It was a wonderful opportunity, figuring out distinct characters who are
also the same people -- that's rare," she says.
Also rare is her work with the Arabian Shakespeare Festival. Officially
founded in January 2013, but dating back to 2010, the Santa Clara
company is involved in a pilot program with the United Arab Emirates
University in Al Ain.
"In 2012, I went with two other actors to workshop Shakespeare with
Arabic women," LeBlanc explains. "It was life changing."
http://bit.ly/sjmnJenn
[full article]
… before she heads into
rehearsals for Silent
Sky, she’ll be working
with the San Francisco–
based Arabian
Shakespeare Festival
on A Message by
Kuwaiti playwright
Hussain Al Musalam.
http://bit.ly/tcgLGJL [full
article]
Photo by Gregg Le Blanc

6. OTHER PROJECTS
The One You Feed – a new, original script
Staged reading produced by Cerimon House
Shotz short scripts – produced by www.AmiosNYC.org
in New York and San Francisco
Photos by Gregg Le Blanc
Photos by Trav Williams

7. THANK
YOU
jennifer@jenniferleblanc.com /MollFlandersPlay
@jenny_leblanc
Twelfth Night, Pacific Repertory - Photo by Gregg Le Blan