Jenny is an award-winning playwright, bookwriter, and lyricist whose works have been heard on Broadway and beyond. Her work has been featured by Lincoln Center, Cirque du Soleil, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Dancing with the Stars, and other regional and international venues.
Awards include the Reva Shiner Comedy Award, Modern Works, Paulette Goddard Award, multiple ASCAP Plus Awards, and the Capital Repertory New Works Award.
Three-time finalist for the Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, and a finalist for the McKnight Fellowship, the PEN Writing for Justice Fellowship, the Yale Institute for Music Theatre, the Pipeline Award, and the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference and Playwriting Conference.
Nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Artist in Residence at the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Village Theatre, Johnny Mercer Writers Grove, Catwalk Institute, Hypatia in the Woods, Goodspeed Musicals, CAP 21, the Ross Ragland Theatre, the Berkshire Playwrights Theatre, Drama Club, and St. Nell’s.
Jenny's humor essays have been published in McSweeney's (Your Favorite Regional Theatre’s (Honest!) Season Announcement!) and other venues, and her plays are published through Broadway Play Publishing and Pioneer Publishing.
Works include The Homefront (Village Theatre Originals, Beta Series, Theatre Latte Da), Secret Hour (Capital Repertory Theatre, The Public Theatre), Extended Stay (The Kitchen Theatre, Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat), Prodigy (CCU, CDP, Two Rivers, Indiana University), The Artist and the Scientist (CAP21), Awakening, Beating a Dead Horse (Bloomington Playwrights Project), The Goree All-Girl String Band (Drama League, Village Theatre Originals), Eleanor and Dolly (Temple University), and Ahoy-Hoy (Urbanite Theatre). Dramatists Guild member; MFA NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Jenny is also a prolific teaching artist, and the Head of Playwriting and Musical Theatre Bookwriting at Temple University. She has taught with the Metropolitan Opera Guild (where she was awarded the title of "Master Teaching Artist"), the New York City Children's Theatre, Trinity Music NYC, and Colorado Christian University. She has been a guest lecturer/artist at New York University, Baruch College, Indiana University, Santa Clara University, SUNY New Paltz, and Fordham University. She also spent two summers teaching theatre and songwriting at Shanti Bhavan in Bangalore, India, with Artists Striving to End Poverty.