Biography

Jennifer grew up in the small coastal town of Vero Beach, Florida, as the oldest of six kids. She attended FIU in Miami and graduate school at LAMDA in the UK, where she studied acting; she made the switch to writing while attending graduate school at Northwestern University. Her recent productions include The Locusts with the Gift Theatre Company, Night in Alachua County with Wildclaw Theatre, Open Blue Sky at Stella Adler/ Tisch School of the Arts and The Bride with the Living Room Playmakers and Chicago Fringe Festival. She developed a Zoom play, The Little World, a solo performance about the development of the Covid vaccine. It was produced in April 2021 with Etopia and Northwestern University. Her play, A Little Ghost Story, was a second time selection for the 2019 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; her play Night in Alachua County was also developed there in 2014. Night in Alachua County was recommended for consideration for the 2018 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. She was a nominee for the PoNY Fellowship and a semi-finalist for the P73 Fellowship. Her work has been developed or presented in New York, Houston, Chicago, and Florida by The Lark Playwrights Center, id Theatre Company, The Gift Theatre Company, Black Box Acting Studio, The Living Room Playmakers, Commission Theatre Company, Wordsmyth Theatre Company, Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Company, White Rose Miami, and Northwestern University. She is a founding member and associate playwright with the Living Room Playmakers. She is currently based in New York City.