Jen Silverman (they/them) is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. 

Recent productions include: CREDITORS (TOGETHER x Audible/Sonia Friedman), the Broadway premiere of THE ROOMMATE (starring Mia Farrow & Patti LuPone) and SPAIN (Second Stage). Other plays include: COLLECTIVE RAGE: A PLAY IN 5 BETTIES (MCC), WITCH (Geffen Playhouse) and THE MOORS (Playwrights Realm). Jen’s plays have been produced across the United States at Steppenwolf, The Goodman, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Huntington, Writers Theatre, Yale Rep, and others. Their plays have been produced internationally in Australia, the UK, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Switzerland, Spain, and elsewhere.

Books include: the debut novel We Play Ourselves (named one of the best books of the year by Buzzfeed; a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award), story collection The Island Dwellers (finalist for a PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize), poetry chapbook Bath (selected by Traci Brimhall for Driftwood Press); 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; their story “The Children Are Fragile” won a 2023 Pushcart Prize.

TV and film work include: Tales of the City on Netflix and Tokyo Vice Season 2 on HBO Max, for which Silverman was a writer-producer. Silverman has also written in TV rooms for Apple, A24, and Showtime. Their OSCAR® qualifying short film Troy screened at 70 festivals internationally, including Sundance, and is featured online in The New Yorker’s Screening Room. Silverman also wrote the best-selling narrative podcast The Miranda Obsession for Audible starring Rachel Brosnahan.

Silverman is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a grateful alum of New Dramatists, and a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris. 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.