Jenelle Riley

Jenelle Riley
Jenelle Riley
Born	Jenelle Lynn Riley; September 26, 1982; Salem, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, journalist, editor

Jenelle Lynn Riley (born September 26, 1982)[1] 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[2] and contributor to The Huffington Post.[3] 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.[4]

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.[5][6] The play has been published by Stage Rights. In 2017, she wrote and directed "Jane Austen's Emma Frankenstein," also at Sacred Fools.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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

"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.
Staff (September 3, 2014). "Variety Ups Jenelle Riley to Deputy Awards and Features Editor". Variety. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
"Jenelle Riley". The Huffington Post.
"SAG-AFTRA Foundation on YouTube".
Weaver,Neal (2012-09-27). "Review: A Kind of Love Story". Retrieved 2021-11-07.
Pincus-Roth, Zachary (2013-04-08). "L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2013: The Winners". laweekly.com. Retrieved 2021-11-07.

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[1] "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.

[2] Staff (September 3, 2014). "Variety Ups Jenelle Riley to Deputy Awards and Features Editor". Variety. Retrieved September 4, 2016.

[3] "Jenelle Riley". The Huffington Post.

[4] "SAG-AFTRA Foundation on YouTube".

[5] Weaver,Neal (2012-09-27). "Review: A Kind of Love Story". Retrieved 2021-11-07.

[6] Pincus-Roth, Zachary (2013-04-08). "L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2013: The Winners". laweekly.com. Retrieved 2021-11-07.