Jenny Seidelman - Playwright
Jenny’s work has been seen at Chicago Dramatists, WNEP Theater, Women’s Theatre Alliance of Chicago,
Stockyards Theatre Project,
n.u.f.a.n. ensemble, Point of Contention, Around the Coyote, Children’s Theater of Western Springs, Wood Street Theater, TANTA Productions (San Francisco), Messenger Theatre Company (New York), TADA! Youth Theater (New York) and her alma mater, Knox College. Her plays A Crime in a Rhyme and Searching for Him are published by TADA! She has written scripts for Northlight Theatre’s Performing Arts Camp and director Lavina Jadhwani.

Her 10-minute piece This is Grand will have its world premiere at American Theater Company's BIG SHOULDERS new play festival on June 19, 2012 and her short play August 8, 1974 will premiere at 20% Theatre Company Chicago's Sixth Annual Snapshots Play Festival in August 2012. Her full-length play Henry Moore is Melting will receive a reading at Horse Trade Theater Group in September 2012.

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.