Jenny Rachel Weiner

Jenny Rachel Weiner is a playwright and actress based in New York City, and is the 2016/2017 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at the Roundabout Theatre where she is an Associate Artist and currently under commission. Select plays include: diventare (The Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award), Horse Girls (Fordham/Primary Stages, the cell, Ars Nova; New York, Collaboraction; Chicago, Annex Theatre; Seattle, published by Samuel French), Nina (Roundabout Theatre Company Underground Reading, O’Neill Semi-Finalist 2016, Fordham/Primary Stages), Jason&Julia (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Stagedream (co-written with Lee Overtree), Aunt Sylvia Is Dead (The Collective; published in The Collective Anthology 2014), Kingdom Come (Roundabout Underground Reading Series 2015, Roundabout Underground Production Fall 2016 directed by Kip Fagan). Jenny has developed plays at the O’Neill Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Northlight Theatre, Piven Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, Space on Ryder Farm, and Roundabout Theatre Company. BFA: Boston University, MFA: Fordham University/Primary Stages. Jenny currently attends the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School. When Jenny isn’t writing plays, you can catch her directing and performing with Story Pirates.