Jul 30, 2018, 11:50 AM

Role : Playwright

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Jen Silverman’s work includes The Moors (Yale Repertory Theatre premiere, The Playwrights Realm NYC premiere), The Roommate (Actors Theatre of Louisville premiere, Williamstown, South Coast Rep, Steppenwolf), Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Woolly Mammoth world premiere, Southwark Playhouse U.K. premiere, MCC New York premiere) and Dangerous House (InterAct Theatre premiere, Williamstown, 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, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Fellowship, the Yale Drama Series Award, the Helen Merrill Award and a Lilly Award. She was the 2016-17 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) and a novel, forthcoming. Jen also writes for television and film, including Netflix’s Tales of the City (starring Laura Linney and Ellen Page) and a film project in development with Annapurna. Education: Brown, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Juilliard. More info: www.jensilverman.com.