Tender Hooks is a play about social class in a rural setting, focusing on an older woman who is terrified by a family that moves in next door. The play is written by Julie Jensen, who has been the recipient of a Kennedy Center Award for New American plays, a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work and an LA Weekly Award for best new play among other awards. She is a frequent speaker and workshop coordinator and she coordinates masterclasses and teaches intensive playwriting courses at the Kennedy Center.