writer - actor - director
Jenny Donheiser is a Brooklyn-based writer, actor, director, podcaster, and mom. Her work has received Vimeo Staff Picks, and appeared on Film Shortage, Vulture, Booooooom.tv, and Adult Swim as well as played at Montclair Film Festival (2023), Fantastic Fest (2020), Palm Springs International Shortsfest (2020), Nitehawk Shorts Festival (2018, 2019), Florida Film Festival (2018, 2019, 2023), Nashville Film Festival (2018), and Portland Film Festival (2018). She also co-hosts a weekly comedic interview podcast called “How Were U Brainwashed” with Nicole Spiezio. Her script Dremé is a finalist in the 2025 Austin Film Festival Script Competition in the Fiction Podcast category.
She is a proud graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Sketch and Improv programs at the Upright Citizens Brigade.
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