Jenny Halper is EVP, Head of Creative at Maven Screen Media, where her credits include THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER, DRIVEWAYS, AMERICAN HONEY, FREAK SHOW, SKIN, A MOUTHFUL OF AIR, the pandemic anthology WITH/IN, and the forthcoming ELEANOR THE GREAT. She currently oversees a slate of projects across film and TV, with a focus on complex female characters and women in front of and behind the camera.
As a screenwriter her scripts have placed three times on the Black List, on the Athena List, received grants from Film Independent and the Tribeca Film Institute, and New York Stage and Film (in association with Powerhouse Theater).
As a fiction writer, she is an Our Stories Emerging Writer Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee with work most recently appearing in the Master's Review Anthology XII. Her story collection has been a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Prize, the Hudson Prize, and the W.S. Porter Prize. She works as a mentor for Stowe Story Labs, the Athena Labs, and NYSAF, among other places. A graduate of Northwestern University and Emerson College, and a founding member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, she is represented by Untitled Entertainment and CAA.