Jen Silverman


Jen Silverman is an American playwright, TV writer, and novelist.
Silverman grew up living and traveling in Scandinavia, Asia, and Europe as well as the United States. She completed a BA in comparative literature at Brown University, a MFA in playwriting at the University of Iowa, and also studied at Juilliard. She is the author of book The Island Dwellers, an interlinked story collection published by Random House.

Background

She has taught theatre and playwriting classes at the University of Iowa, Playwrights Horizons Theater School at New York University and ESPA. Silverman completed residencies at MacDowell Colony, New Harmony, Hedgebrook, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Silverman also writes for TV, she wrote for Netflix's Tales of the City.

Works

Plays

Silverman has received the Yale Drama Series Award, Lilly Award, Kennedy Center's Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, MacDowell Fellow, the Helen Merrill Fund Award in 2015, and the PoNY Fellowship.