Playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. PLAYS: The Roommate (Broadway: The Booth Theatre; Regionally: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, South Coast Repertory Theatre, etc.); Highway Patrol (The Goodman); Spain (Second Stage Theater); Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Woolly Mammoth, MCC, Southwark Playhouse London); The Moors (Yale Repertory Theatre, The Playwrights Realm); and Witch (Writer’s Theatre, The Geffen, The Huntington). BOOKS: Debut novel We Play Ourselves, story collection The Island Dwellers, and novel There’s Going to be Trouble from Random House. PODCAST: Wrote the bestselling narrative podcast The Miranda Obsession for Audible, starring Rachel Brosnahan. AWARDS: Three-time MacDowell Fellow, member of New Dramatists, and a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris. TV/FILM: Writing for Tales of the City (Netflix) and Tokyo Vice (Max). OSCAR®-qualifying short film Troy screened at 70 festivals internationally including 2023 Sundance Film Festival and is featured online in The New Yorker’s Screening Room. HONORS: Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim. jensilverman.com
