About me
Jen Silverman is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Plays include: Spain; Highway Patrol; Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; The Moors; and Witch. Silverman’s plays have been produced off-Broadway (Second Stage Theatre, MCC Theater, The Playwrights Realm), across the US (Steppenwolf, The Goodman, The Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Huntington, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Writers Theatre etc), and internationally. The Roommate is currently running on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. Books include: the debut novel We Play Ourselves, story collection The Island Dwellers, and new novel There’s Going to be Trouble from Random House. Their essays have been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Vogue, and elsewhere. TV and film work includes: Tales of the City on Netflix and Tokyo Vice Season 2 on Max, for which Silverman is a writer-producer. Honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim.
