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

Plays include: The Roommate, Spain, Witch, Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties, The Moors, Wink, and Phoebe In Winter. Silverman’s plays have been produced on Broadway (The Roommate with Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone); off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, MCC Theater, The Playwrights Realm, and Clubbed Thumb; and regionally at theatres including Steppenwolf, The Goodman, The Geffen, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Humana Festival, The Huntington, South Coast Rep, Yale Rep, and Writers Theatre. Silverman’s work has been produced internationally in Australia, the UK, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Brazil, Spain, and elsewhere. Creditors is upcoming this spring at The Minetta Lane Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson, starring Liev Schreiber, Maggie Siff, and Justice Smith.

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 includes: Tales of the City on Netflix and Tokyo Vice Season 2 on Max, for which Silverman is a writer-producer. They have written screenplays for Annapurna Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Netflix, Killer Films, Two and Two Pictures and Film4 Productions as well as the OSCAR® qualifying short film Troy, which screened at 70 festivals internationally including the 2023 Sundance Film Festival 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. Current projects include an adaptation of Alice Sadie Celine as a feature for Linden Productions and MUBI.

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.