Jenny Halper

Jenny Halper is EVP, Head of Creative at Maven Screen Media, where her credits include The Kindergarten Teacher, Driveways, American Honey, Skin, A Mouthful Of Air, and the pandemic anthology With/In. 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 been selected for New York Stage and Film’s Workshop (in association with Powerhouse Theater).

She is currently developing an anthology series with Freida Pinto and Emily Verellen Strom's Freebird Films and Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi's Significant Productions, a limited series with Michael Dinner's Rooney McP Productions, and adapting a non-fiction book for Social Construct Films (The Mauritanian). As a fiction writer, she is an Our Stories Emerging Writer Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee, with stories appearing in places including The Chicago Tribune, PANK, Joyland, and the Southeast Review, and her story collection has been a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Prize and the Hudson Prize.

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.