Jen Silverman is an American playwright, TV writer, poet, and novelist.
Silverman grew up living and traveling in Scandinavia, Asia, and Europe as well as the United States.[1] They are the author of the books The Island Dwellers, an interlinked story collection published by Random House, and the novels We Play Ourselves and There's Going to Be Trouble.[2]
Silverman has written a number of plays and has written for TV and film, including Netflix's Tales of the City and Tokyo Vice on which they are also a producer.
Silverman has published essays on the relationship between art and morality in The New York Times and Vogue.[3][4] Silverman is set to make their Broadway debut as a playwright in the fall of 2024 with their play The Roommate at the Booth Theatre, starring Mia Farrow and Patti Lupone.[5]
Background
Silverman completed a BA in comparative literature at Brown University,[6] an MFA in playwriting at the University of Iowa, and an Artist Diploma at Juilliard under Marsha Norman and Chris Durang.
Collective Rage: A Play In 5 Betties; In Essence, A Queer And Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were In Middle School And You Read About Shackleton And How He Explored The Antarctic?; Imagine The Antarctic As A Pussy And It’s Sort Of Like That[7]
Silverman has received the Yale Drama Series Award,[6] Lilly Award, the Helen Merrill Fund Award in 2015,[6] and the PoNY Fellowship (2016-2017).[9] Recent honors include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim.
