JENNIFER PREDIGER

Jennifer Prediger is a writer/director and actor. APARTMENT TROUBLES starring Megan Mullally and Will Forte was her feature directorial and screenwriting debut with Jess Weixler. The movie premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and came out in theaters and On Demand in March 2015. It aired on Showtime for two years running.

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Prediger produced Paul Lieberstein’s (The Office) dark comedy SONG OF BACK AND NECK– –starring Lieberstein, Rose-Marie DeWitt and Paul Feig. The film came out in theaters December 2018. 

 

As an actor, Jennifer starred in UNCLE KENT, a film directed by Joe Swanberg that premiered at Sundance in 2011 and was purchased by IFC. She also has roles in Sundance favorites -- DINNER IN AMERICA 2020 (dir. Adam Rehmeier with Producers Ben Stiller, Ross Putman and Dave Hunter), FIRST GIRL I LOVED in 2016 (dir. Kerem Sangha) THE FOXY MERKINS in 2014 (dir. Madeleine Olnek) and A TEACHER in 2013 (dir. Hannah Fidell).

 

Jennifer co-starred in the Gotham Award-nominated comedy RED FLAG (dir. Alex Karpovsky) and 2017 Gotham Award Winner for Breakthrough Series THE STRANGE EYES OF DR. MYES (dir. Nancy Andrews). She plays the lead in Leah Shore's short film FUNERAL, acted in filmmaker Bob Byington's 7 CHINESE BROTHERS, INFINITY BABY and FRANCES FERGUSON and Onur Tukel's RICHARD'S WEDDING and APPLESAUCE.

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She has also written, directed, edited and produced videos for Newsweek.com, Nerve.com, USDA, Grist.org, Sundance Film Forward, Current TV and WashingtonPost.com. She's been a commentator on The Today Show and NPR's All Things Considered and was a contributor to The Onion and Onion Radio News. She wrote and was the on-line personality for a workplace advice column called HEY PENNY for Slate V. She also wrote/directed and played ASK UMBRA, the environmental advice columnist on Grist.org. She has, on occasion, participated in hijinx with her disrupter heroes, The Yes Men.

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Jennifer graduated from The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. She also has an M.A. in Organizational Psychology and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting.

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She is an Associate Professor of Screenwriting and Film at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.