A new interview with Jennifer done by Broadwayworld on February 21, 2011.

This past week actress Jennifer Carpenter sat down with Broadwayworld to discuss her role in the Off-Broadway show, Gruesome Playground Injuries.

Carpenter is best known for her TV portrayal of “Debra Morgan” on Dexter, and has also graced the big screen as “Emily Rose” in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, and as “Angela Vidal” in Quarantine.

While these roles are to thank for establishing her career in Hollywood, they have also boxed her into the horror genre. It may be becuase of this that she is lesser known for her numerous turns on the stage, including Broadway’s The Crucible, and work for LCT, Actors Theatre Of Louisville, and The O’Neill Playwrights Conference. But after eight years away from theater, she has returned to play the role of “Kayleen” in Second Stage Theater’s Gruesome Playground Injuries, a choice that allows audiences to see her in a new light.
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Jennifer is mentioned at My Fox NY News on TV yesterday – view video below:

Actress Jennifer Carpenter wraps up her role this week in the Broadway production of ‘Gruesome Play Injuries.’ Then it’s on to ‘The Factory‘- a new movie starring Carpenter and John Cusack.

‘Gruesome Play Injuries‘ is now playing at the 2nd Stage Theater. For ticket information, visit www.2st.com.

I really wish I could go and see the play, and if you got the chance – take it!

A great read and it takes up Jennifer’s upcoming projects!

Jennifer Carpenter is happy: She’s finally been given permission to cry.

The actress, currently starring opposite Pablo Schreiber in the off-Broadway dark romantic play “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” had to stifle her tears on stage while rehearsing the role of Kayleen, a young woman suppressing her inner turmoil.

“There was one rule: It’s that Kayleen doesn’t cry. That’s a lot to swallow all the time. It was actually unhealthy for a while, I think. During one rehearsal, I did cry and I felt so much better. I said, ‘I may need to leave a little on the stage.’”

Director Scott Ellis eventually relented, finally allowing Carpenter to release her pain — but only at the very end of each performance. “I think the journey that she goes through, she looks forward to that moment,” Ellis says.

Carpenter, 31, is flexing her tear ducts and theater muscles for the first time since she made a name for herself on Showtime’s serial killer series “Dexter” and in films such as “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” and “White Chicks.”

“This has been a historic moment in my life. This whole period of my life is going to change the course of everything in a really positive way,” she says during an interview in her dressing room. “I’m at a point in my life where I’m looking to be surprised. I’m looking to do things that I hadn’t expected to do.”
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New articles are being published with Jennifer and it’s nice to read several new interviews with her! She also posed for a wonderful new portrait in New York on February 14. Thanks to Nadia for sending me the photos!! <3

GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoots: 2011 Trump SoHo Hotel Portrait

Jennifer Carpenter says she thinks the sixth series of Dexter will surprise viewers.

The actress, who plays alongside her ex-husband Michael C Hall in the Showtime drama, said she thinks there’s one or two seasons still to go.

She said: “I’m really excited about this year. [The end of the last series] was just really open-ended, it could go anywhere. It has the same opportunity to surprise people and I think it will.”

Jennifer wouldn’t say what she thought might happen when reunited on set with Michael, who plays her character’s murderous brother, after the two separated last August.

But she’s keeping herself busy with work, and has three films in the pipeline: The Factory alongside John Cusack; Hungry Rabbit Jumps with Nicolas Cage, Guy Pearce and January Jones, and Ex-Girlfriends, an Alexander Poe comedy – which is something that’s been missing from her CV of late.
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And here is the new event photos of lovely Jennifer! She was apparently there with her old friend January Jones and you can also read an article on the fashion week and Jenn at StyleBistro and The Cut.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Events in 2011: February 15 – Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – Rachel Roy Fall 2011 Presentation
- Events in 2011: February 13 – Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – Malandrino Fall 2011 Fashion Show

The New York Fashion week is right now and there was a new quote from Jennifer about it:

Dexter actress Jennifer Carpenter tells OK! before Rag & Bone starts, “I’m really excited to see the show and I’m really nervous I’m going to want to buy everything in it though!?”

So I guess we should get new event photos of Jennifer

Read full article at OK! Magazine

Some new production still has been released for Faster but none of Jennifer But you can view them all at HeyUGuys. There is also some interviews with the other cast if you’re interested!

Synopsis: After 10 years in prison, Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has a singular focus — to avenge the murder of his brother during the botched bank robbery that led to his imprisonment. Now a free man with a deadly to-do list in hand, he’s finally on his mission…but with two men on his trail — a veteran cop (Billy Bob Thornton) just days from retirement, and a young egocentric hitman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) with a flair for the art of killing and newfound worthy opponent. The hunter is also the hunted. It’s a do or die race to the list’s finish as the mystery surrounding his brother’s murder deepens, and new details emerge along the way hinting that Driver’s list may be incomplete.

Here is a review of Jennifer’s new play Gruesome Playground Injuries made by Broadway World. I wish I lived in USA so I could see this play and Jennifer on stage – if you have the chance to, take it!

The New York stage is often a haven for self-destructive couples on display, but rarely is that self-destruction so bluntly in view as in Rajiv Joseph’s intriguing Gruesome Playground Injuries. The work of this imaginative playwright, who’ll be making his Broadway debut later this season with his Pulitzer finalist, A Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, grows more interesting with each new piece to hit town and director Scott Ellis’ darkly funny Second Stage production is terrifically unsettling.

“Age Eight: Face Split Open,” projected above the stage announces the opening scene. Doug (Pablo Schreiber) meets Kayleen (Jennifer Carpenter) in their school’s nurse’s office after he’s bloodied up his face by riding his bicycle off the roof, imitating Evel Knievel. She’s there because she can’t stop vomiting, sometimes so hard it makes her eyes bleed.
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Finally got it to work to add the photos, enjoy!

GALLERY LINKS:
- Events in 2011: January 31 – ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’ Off-Broadway Opening Night After Party

Jennifer attended the ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries‘ Off-Broadway opening night after party at the Trattoria Dopo Teatro on January 31, 2011 in New York City. She looked lovely!

The gallery isn’t really working for me and I can’t add photos but you can view some pictures here!