Theatre
Jenny Rachel Weiner was the 2016/2017 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at the Roundabout Theatre, where she is an Associate Artist. Select plays include: diventare (The Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award), Horse Girls (which continues to be performed around the world, notably New York, Chicago, Seattle, and London; published by Samuel French), Jason&Julia (Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop Production, Wyoming Theatre Festival Reading, City Theatre of Pittsburgh Reading), Stagedream (co-written with Lee Overtree, production at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School), Kingdom Come (Roundabout Underground Production directed by Kip Fagan; published by Samuel French), Part & Parcel (Perry Mansfield Theatre Festival, Finalist for the Blue Ink Playwriting Award, Recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for Comedic Playwriting), Damsels (developed at Space on Ryder Farm, Williamstown Theatre Festival Sagal Fellowship Workshop Production 2018, finalist for Theater J’s 2021 Patty Abramson Prize), I'll Get You, My Pretty (Residency and Workshop with the University of Florida School of Theatre and Dance), and The Chameleon (commissioned by Roundabout Theatre Company, developed at Space on Ryder Farm, World Premiere at Theater J in October 2023). Jenny is currently under commission at Manhattan Theatre Club, and has developed plays with Roundabout Theater Company, O’Neill Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Northlight Theatre, The Lark, Primary Stages, and Space on Ryder Farm, where she was a member of the 2019 Working Farm, and a 2020 Season Extension Resident.
Film/TV
Jenny has developed and sold the feature films Who Invited Her with Bruna Papandrea and Gary Foster to Universal, A Ladies Guide to Selling Out with Meg Ryan and Gary Foster to Netflix, and Wellness Warrior with Jennifer Lawrence to Makeready. She has developed and sold original pilots Mule with Prentice Penny to Onyx, Stagedream, based on her original play, with Will Graham to Amazon, I Love Danielle with 20th Century and Elizabeth Moss to Hulu, Fame Whore with Kate Upton to FX, and Fugly, an Audible Original that she wrote and directed, Executive Produced by Elizabeth Banks for Audible, coming out March 2026. She is currently developing an original television concept Brooklyn Moms with Michael Showalter’s Semi-Formal Productions, an original television concept Next of Kin with I Love Jenni Konner co-written with Morgan Gould, and an original television concept Sisters of Virtue with Maya Rudolph’s Banana Split. She is represented by Josh Goldenberg and Hannah Ozer at Kaplan Perrone, and David Hiller at HJTH. Jenny holds a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from Fordham College at Lincoln Center.
BFA: Boston University; MFA: Fordham University.
In 2018, Jenny graduated from the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School.