Jenny Seidelman - Playwright
Jenny’s work has been seen at Chicago Dramatists, WNEP Theater, American Theater Company, Women’s Theatre Alliance of Chicago, Stockyards Theatre Project, 20% Theatre Company Chicago, Horse Trade Theater Group, Messenger Theatre Company, TADA! Youth Theater and her alma mater, Knox College, amongst others. She has written scripts for Northlight Theatre’s Performing Arts Camp and director Lavina Jadhwani.

Her full-length play Henry Moore is Melting received its world premiere at Cold Basement Dramatics in Chicago in January 2013 and had readings as part of Knox College's First Annual New Play Festival on April 12 and 13, 2013. Her play The Traveller of Tenby was named a semi-finalist for Polarity Ensemble Theatre's 2013 Dionysos Cup Festival of New Plays. She will have two plays in the upcoming 3rd Annual Chicago One-Minute Play Festival on June 17th and 18th at Victory Gardens Theater.

Jenny lives in Chicago. She received a grant from the Illinois Arts Council in 2011 and served as a panelist in Theater for the IAC for the 2012 cycle. In 2010, she was the recipient of a grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Jenny is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. and a Network Playwright at Chicago Dramatists.