Jenny Deller

About

Jenny Deller is a writer, director and actor living in Philadelphia. Her feature-length screenplay, Future Weather, won the 2009 Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay at the Nantucket Film Festival. In 2009 the project was the recipient of the Film Independent Producers Grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 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, Deller has been writing fiction for over twenty years, and directing theater and film since attending high school at the Illinois Math & Science Academy. She has directed and edited eight short films, including documentary video series for Drew University and Anthropologie, where she served as Senior Copywriter. After graduating with a self-designed major in writing, acting and directing from Lewis & Clark College, Jenny went on to study 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. Deller was selected to participate in the 2009 Film Independent Screenwriters Lab and Producers Lab.