JEN SILVERMAN

Jen Silverman’s work includes THE MOORS (Yale Repertory Theatre premiere, The Playwrights Realm NYC premiere), THE ROOMMATE (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville premiere, Williamstown Theatre Festival, upcoming at Steppenwolf), COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN 5 BETTIES (Woolly Mammoth US premiere, Southwark Playhouse UK premiere), and DANGEROUS HOUSE (InterAct Theatre premiere, upcoming at Williamstown Theatre Festival, winner of a Steinberg Citation.) Jen is a member of New Dramatists, an affiliated artist with The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis and SPACE on Ryder Farm, and has developed work with the O’Neill, New York Theatre Workshop, Playpenn, The Ground Floor Residency at Berkeley Rep, and the Royal Court in London among other places. She’s a two-time MacDowell fellow, recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, the Helen Merrill Award, an LMCC Fellowship, and the Yale Drama Series Award. She was the 2016-2017 Playwrights of New York (PoNY) Fellow at the Lark. Jen has a two-book deal with Random House for a collection of interlinked stories (THE ISLAND DWELLERS, forthcoming May 1) and a novel. Education: Brown, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Juilliard. More info: www.jensilverman.com