Trailer for I Got Sick Then I Got Better
April 28th, 2010
I GOT SICK THEN I GOT BETTER
April 8th, 2010If 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:
Ovarian Cancer National Alliance
Washington, D.C.
July 11, 2010
Adelphi University
Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline
Concert Hall, One South Ave
Garden City, N.Y.
October 17, 2010
Recent performances:
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; 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.
Jenny at The Cornelia Street Cafe’s WRITERS READ
April 7th, 2010Jenny will read work at The Cornelia Street Cafe on December 16 at 6:00pm, as part of the WRITERS READ program. Mark your calendar and check back for details!
Jenny has recently appeared to read her work at True Story: The KGB Nonfiction Reading Series and The Moth’s Raised Eyebrows: Stories of Shock, Surprises and Scandals
How to Assign a Magazine Story
March 29th, 2010How to Assign a Magazine Story
A short piece published by the Atlantic’s Culture blog.
Brooke Shields in GOOD HOUSEKEEPING & “The Little Ways We Drive Each Other Nuts” in MORE
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.
The Obamas can have my house!
August 17th, 2009Take 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!
Jenny Allen at the New Yorker Festival, Oct 16–18
July 21st, 2009Jenny will be a featured writer at the New Yorker Festival.
I Can’t Get That Penis Out of My Mind
March 11th, 2009Now 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.
Disquiet, Please!
February 7th, 2009
I’m in an anthology from The New Yorker! called Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker