Jenny Jaffe

Jenny Jaffe

Birthday: 28 February 1990, California, USA
Birth Name: Jennifer Rachel Jaffe
Height: 163 cm
Jenny Jaffe is a New York-based comedy writer, performer, non-profit founder, and non-comedy writer. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jenny attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she earned her BFA in Television writing. While at NYU, Jenny was a member (And later director) of NYU's premiere sketch group, Hammerkatz. During h... Show more »
Jenny Jaffe is a New York-based comedy writer, performer, non-profit founder, and non-comedy writer. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jenny attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she earned her BFA in Television writing. While at NYU, Jenny was a member (And later director) of NYU's premiere sketch group, Hammerkatz. During her senior year, Jenny was hired as a full time staff writer at CollegeHumor. She then went on to write for MTV's Nikki and Sara Live, and developed a pilot, Love Week, for VH1 Online. In 2014, Jenny started Project UROK, a non-profit organization dedicated to combating the isolation of mental illness through funny, meaningful web content aimed at teens and young adults. Jenny is a member of the comedy group Forever Dog Productions, with whom she writes and performs regularly at The PIT. She has written for Vulture, The Washington Post, xoJane, Bustle, Reductress, and The Devastator, and her work has been featured in Playboy and Slate, among others. Along with Mara Wilson, she is the co-host of the live show Send In The Clowns at NYC'S Duplex cabaret theater. She can be seen in the upcoming feature films Jack of the Red Hearts and Punk's Dead. She Tweets way too much (@JennyJaffe), lives in Manhattan, and really likes pandas. Show less «
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