January 8th, 2010
If you are interested in sharing I GOT SICK THEN I GOT BETTER with your community, school, university, college, support group or hospital, please contact Peter Hagan, Jenny’s agent. Ben Brantley, writing for The New York Times, called the show “embraceable” and wrote: “Ms. Allen speaks with passion and precision…” Read the full review.
Upcoming Performances:
Duke University
Searle Center, Room 021
Durham, North Carolina
March 24, 2010
9:00 AM
Recent performances:
The Canary Foundation, Menlo Park, California; Robeson Center for the Arts, Princeton, New Jersey; New York Theatre Workshop, New York, New York; Arts on the Lake, Kent, New York; Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut; Barrington Stage Company, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Wellfleet, Massachusetts; Hudson Opera House, Hudson, New York.
November 26th, 2009
Read “Being Brooke,” Jenny’s bio of Brooke Shields in the January 2010 issue of Good Housekeeping
Read “The Little Ways We Drive Each Other Nuts” in the November 2009 issue of More magazine.
August 17th, 2009
Take My House, Please appeared today in the Huffington Post.
Dear President and Mrs. Obama,
So I’m sitting in traffic here on Martha’s Vineyard, trying to get downtown to buy those turquoise-colored poison pellets to kill the mice that drop their tiny doo-doos all over my kitchen counters, and it hits me, bonk!, like the apple on Mr. Isaac Newton: The Obamas can have my house! You can have my house!
Continued at Huffington Post…more…
July 21st, 2009
The New Yorker Festival
Jenny will be a featured writer at the New Yorker Festival.
March 11th, 2009
Now I’m an official blogger at the Huffington Post, but I still can’t get that penis out of my mind!
Read my article here:
I Can’t Get That Penis Out of My Mind
Bookmark my author page.
February 7th, 2009
I’m in an anthology from The New Yorker! called Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker. It’s about how I can’t sleep.
February 7th, 2009
I have a piece in a writer’s anthology about FOOD. It’s called Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image. You can buy it by clicking on that link.
It’s edited by Harriet Brown, and published by Ballantine Books.
Here’s the first sentence: “I’m afraid there’s no way to say this without sounding pitiful, so I’m just going to say it.”