Jenny Kleiman is a screenwriter, director, producer, and screenwriting teacher. She was recently featured by the Austin Film Festival and No Film School as #5 on the Screenwriters to Watch in 2021 list.

Jenny's work "finds the fun and funny in trauma," united in thematic explorations of changing families, sex, and the taboo. Her most recent short, Sofa Queen, received more than 20 festival selections and won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short at Film Invasion LA. She teaches the Working the Wound Screenwriting Workshop focused on helping writers of all identities to develop complex women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ protagonists.

Born in NYC and raised in South Carolina, Jenny is a mod podge of dueling American cultures. A 7th-generation Charlestonian Jew, her family's tomato-based matzo ball soup recipe is included in numerous regional cookbooks. A mean parallel parker, she currently resides in the West Village with her border collie-mix.