Jenelle Riley
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
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| birth_name = Jenelle Lynn Riley
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|09|26}}
| birth_place = Salem, Oregon, U.S.
| occupation = Screenwriter, journalist, editor
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Jenelle Lynn Riley (born September 26, 1982)"United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (23 May 2014), Jenelle Lynn Riley, Residence, Culver City, California, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information. is an American screenwriter, actress, journalist, and producer. Riley wrote the 2015 short film Warning Labels, directed by Jennifer Morrison, and is the host of Variety{{'}}s Actors on Actors, for which she has won a Daytime Emmy Award and two Los Angeles Emmy Awards. She is also an editor for Variety{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/variety-ups-jenelle-riley-to-deputy-awards-and-features-editor-1201296944/|work=Variety|title=Variety Ups Jenelle Riley to Deputy Awards and Features Editor|date=September 3, 2014|accessdate=September 4, 2016|author=Staff}} and contributor to The Huffington Post.{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/jenelle-riley|work=The Huffington Post|title=Jenelle Riley}} She wrote and directed the award-winning play "A Kind of Love Story" which had its world premiere at Sacred Fools Theater Company in Los Angeles. She is the regular host of career conversations for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, where she has conducted lengthy interviews with various actors.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYrsQFfYdzYVNsKS0gpH1mg|title=SAG-AFTRA Foundation on YouTube}}
Theater career
Riley's first play, "Just Julie," was published when she was a teenager. Her play "Heart Murmurs and Brain Matter" premiered in 2000 in Los Angeles before being staged in London and New York. She followed that with the highly acclaimed "Comfortably Numb" in 2001. Other works include "The Gemini Project," "Duct Tape and Dreams" and "Unholy Matrimony." In 2012, the world premiere of "A Kind of Love Story" took place at Sacred Fools Theatre in Hollywood, earning six L.A. Weekly Award nominations and winning a directing prize for Riley.{{cite web|url=http://www.laweekly.com/arts/a-kind-of-love-story-2611945|title=Review: A Kind of Love Story |author=Weaver,Neal |date=2012-09-27 |access-date=2021-11-07 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/l-a-weekly-theater-awards-2013-the-winners/|title=L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2013: The Winners |author=Pincus-Roth, Zachary |date=2013-04-08 |website=laweekly.com |access-date=2021-11-07 }} The play has been published by Stage Rights. In 2017, she wrote and directed "Jane Austen's Emma Frankenstein," also at Sacred Fools.
Filmography
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Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
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2003 | Auditions | Writer and Bad Auditioner | |
2004 | The Perfect Candidate | Writer | |
2004 | Crazy Love | Writer | Winner: Palm Springs Shortsfest |
2004 | An Inconvenient Affair | Writer | |
2004 | The B.P.R.D. Declassified | Student | Television film |
2005 | The Swap | Writer | |
2005–present | SAG Foundation Conversations | Host | 300 episodes |
2007 | Manband the Movie | Office Worker | |
2012 | A Girl, a Guy, a Space Helmet | Radio Host | |
2013 | American Hustle | Neighbor | (Deleted Scenes Only) |
2014 | Firsts | Writer | Episode: "The Threesome" |
2014–2019 | Actors on Actors | Host/Producer | Emmy Award Winner |
2015 | Nobody's Perfect | Maya | Short film |
2015 | Joy | Special Thanks | |
2015 | Warning Labels | Writer | Short film |
2015 | Grand Gestures | Writer and Director | Short film |
2019 | Butter Emails | Writer | Short film |
References
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Category:American women journalists
Category:Actresses from Salem, Oregon
Category:Writers from Salem, Oregon