Bio

Jennifer Houlton is developing a film project with the Academy Award-nominated actor MATT DILLON. She is adapting the book “The Killing of Dr. Muldoon” into a screenplay, and writing a piece told from the perspective of the “Q-Anon Shaman” from the January 6th insurrection. This piece will be performed in a Modern American series at The Actors Studio in New York City.

Houlton recently completed EDGEWOOD, a six-part psychological thriller for TV starring JOSEPH SIKORA and JOHN DOMAN. She is also in post-production on her short film WATER, which stars MICHAEL SHANNON and IDINA MENZEL. And she is co-producing her screenplay, “Swimming Drunk at Night,” with actor WILL PATTON.

Houlton’s plays have been produced at MCC, The New Group, La Mama, HERE, and Cucaracha Theatre. She is a member of the Playwrights and Directors Unit at the Actors Studio, where she is both a playwright and a PDU Board member.

She was one of four writers who received an EMMY for her work on the Online comedy FLOATERS. Several of her Flash Fiction stories have been published in various “best of” collections. She trained with experimental Theater pioneers Joseph Chaikin and Judith Malina of The Living Theater. She studied acting with Stella Adler and writing with Amiri Baraka, aka LeRoi Jones.

Houlton began her career as an actress at age eight, playing a featured role on the NBC soap opera The Doctors. She was on the show for ten years before leaving at the age of eighteen to attend Cornell University. She graduated from New York University's Gallatin Division with Honors from the Great Books Program.

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