Jenny Deller is a writer-director living in Philadelphia. Her second feature-length screenplay, FUTURE WEATHER, won the 2009 Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay at the Nantucket Film Festival as well as a Sloan Producers Grant from Film Independent. FUTURE WEATHER was also a finalist for the 2009 Netflix Find Your Voice Film Competition. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Young Scholars Grant, Jenny has been writing short fiction for over twenty years, and directing theater and film since attending high school at the Illinois Math & Science Academy. Jenny has directed and edited eight short films with a range of budgets and formats, which have screened at such venues as Open Cine New York and EggFest. Most recently, she produced a short video series for women's retailer Anthropologie, where she also served as Senior Copywriter for four years. Jenny studied acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and in New York at the Ward Studio Meisner Program and American Mime Theater. Her appearances include LAW & ORDER and several Off-Broadway productions including ROMEO & JULIET. Jenny attended the 2009 Film Independent Screenwriters Lab and is currently preparing FUTURE WEATHER for production.

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