Jennifer is a comedian and writer best known for her blog (JenIsFamous.com) and for orchestrating the Williamsburg Spelling Bee, a real adult spelling bee which has been featured on NPR and in the New York Times, TimeOut NY, various travel and in-flight magazines, and international press including Tokyo Shimbun, German Public Radio, and the Sydney Herald. In 2008, she instituted a new spelling bee in Manhattan in addition to Vocabulary, Geography, Math, and Trivia nights at the Chelsea Market.

Jennifer is well-known in New York’s indie comedy scene for hosting the live show “Monday Evening Stand-Up at Pete’s,” broadcast Mondays on Brooklyn Cable Access Television. She has performed at colleges from Dartmouth to Bowling Green, at clubs from New York to LA, in corporate shows and fundraisers, and around the northeast in Ivy League Comedy shows. During her last Midwest tour, she appeared on the Bob and Tom radio show; in 2007, she toured the East Coast with her one-woman show, “What Philosophy Majors Do After College” (selling out theaters in D.C. and Norfolk), and then embarked on a three-week Armed Forces Entertainment tour, entertaining the troops in the Middle East.

Jennifer’s blog has been frequently quoted on Gawker and is read by over 10,000 people. She is a contributor to “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes” (Alpha/Penguin) and many other books, and has been published several times on McSweeney’s. She is working on a book-length collection of humorous essays.

She is a member of Mensa, and an impeccable speller.

Standup Comedy
Broadway Comedy Club , Caroline’s, Stand Up New York, New York Comedy Club, Ft. Hamilton Army Base, New York University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, YWCA of New York benefit, ASET Annual Conference (corporate fundraiser), Coffee with Conscience (charity fundraiser, NJ), Pete’s Candy Store, Chicks and Giggles, Cornelia Street Café, Ivy League Comedy Shows, Boise Funny Bone (ID), San Manuel Indian Casino and Bingo (CA), Comedy, TN (Memphis), Bear’s Place (Bloomington, IN), Wiley’s Comedy Club (IN), Bowling Green University (OH), The D.C. Arts Center, The Red & The Black (D.C.), The Hamilton Arts Collective in Baltimore, The 305 South Anti-Mall in Durham (NC), The Garage in Winston-Salem (N.C.), The Boot in Norfolk, VA, Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; Camp Buehring, Kuwait; Camp L.S.A., Kuwait; Camp Virginia, Kuwait; Camp Patriot, Kuwait Naval Base; Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar; As Sayliyah, Qatar; the U.S.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. Gettysburg (200 miles off the coast in the Persian Gulf); Naval Support Activity, Bahrain; and Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, Africa.

Writing
Contributor, “The Idiot’s Guide to Jokes” (Alpha/Penguin, Sept. 2006); Humor columnist (over 150 articles) for the Virginian Pilot, 1992-1996; National Society of Newspaper Columnists Humor Writing Award, 1997; Humorous fiction published in “Sex and Candy” anthology (Pretty Things Press, 2007); Quoted in “How Not to Date,” “Giirls Gone Mild,” and “Santa Versus Satan: The Compendium of Imaginary Fights”

Modeling
Fashion shows for Jillian Sherry couture , The Girdle Factory, La Croix Accessories ; Faces of Change Calendar Model; Molotov Samba (Cannes Film Festival entrant) – Body Double for Poster; Catalogue Model for Evilkid clothing, Molly Crabapple Illustration; Tearsheets in Supermodels Unlimited and Der Gap (German art magazine)

Education and Training
Van Mar Academy of Motion Picture and Television Acting, Los Angeles Courses in entertainment business and acting. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Bachelor of Arts, 2000. Major in Philosophy. Writer for Jack-O Lantern Humor Magazine.