Writing

Fedna writes plays, films, and television shaped by family, history, memory, and the difficult work of seeing one another clearly.

Close portrait of Fedna Jacquet

Plays + audio

Uncle V
Full-length play
Primary Stages DSNAWG
A loose adaptation of Uncle Vanya with an all-Black cast, set in modern-day Martha’s Vineyard.
Playing Mas
Audio play
Dream Boston commission
Outside a Jamaican patty cart, within earshot of the West Indian Parade, two high-powered lawyers face what it means to grow up.
Girlfriend
Full-length play
Huntington workshop · Fire This Time Festival
Two best friends ride the bold, excruciatingly confusing rollercoaster of love and friendship toward a destination neither expected.
Heroes
Full-length play
Huntington residency workshop
An eclectic group of scientists races to save the world from the next pandemic while their ideologies pull them apart.
Civic Duty
Full-length play
SUNY Purchase commission
After a president is assassinated at a concert, seven witnesses drag us through conflicting accounts of guilt, blame, and civic duty.
Pefeksyon (Perfection)
Play
DVRF finalist · Playwrights Realm finalist
A middle-class Haitian New England family gathers to celebrate an achievement, and long-buried secrets threaten their pursuit of perfection.
Inheritance (Talks With My Father)
Play
Huntington workshop
Three siblings return to their childhood home in Haiti, where memory, inheritance, and secrets buried in the ground turn deadly.

Screenwriting

Inheritance
Feature / short film
Urbanworld honorable mention
In Haiti, three Americanized siblings must unbury the past to find their inheritance—and what waits beneath the soil.
Isaiah
Feature screenplay
NYSCA/NYFA fellowship
One young Black man is killed. An officer’s life is torn apart. Time rewinds to reveal the people changed by their fatal encounter.
Model Minority
Half-hour dramedy
Screenwriting
An Asian American analyst confronts corporate discrimination after being passed over for a well-earned promotion.
Circus
Short screenplay
HollyShorts selection
Three Black women live out their fears and breaking points through heightened clown routines.
Pefeksyon
Half-hour comedy
Television
The Toussaint siblings band together to keep their secrets from their very Haitian parents.

Short films

Raymonde Jacquet at a sewing machine in Chante Manman Mwen
Chante Manman Mwen · courtesy Roxbury International Film Festival

Chante Manman Mwen

Short film · Director · Writer · Producer

At seventy, Haitian American supermom Raymonde Jacquet fulfills a childhood dream with help from her daughter.

Open project
Fedna Jacquet and Marchánt Davis seated together in Murika
Murika · courtesy Brooklyn Film Festival

Murika

Short film · Director · Writer · Producer

Two young Black Americans confront the distance between election-night relief and the reality of a deeply divided country.

Open project

Black Therapist: We Need Help

Short film · Director · Writer · Producer

A Zoom-era short foregrounding the particular trauma experienced by Black women.

Open project