Jenelle Lynn Riley (born September 26, 1982)^[1] is an American screenwriter, actress, journalist, and producer. Riley wrote the 2015 short filmWarning Labels, directed byJennifer Morrison, and is the host ofVariety'sActors on Actors, for which she has won aDaytime Emmy Award and twoLos Angeles Emmy Awards. She is also an editor forVariety^[2] and contributor toThe Huffington Post.^[3] She wrote and directed the award-winning play "A Kind of Love Story" which had its world premiere atSacred Fools Theater Company in Los Angeles. She is the regular host of career conversations for theSAG-AFTRA Foundation, where she has conducted lengthy interviews with various actors.^[4]

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.

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• Actresses from Salem, Oregon
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• 21st-century American women

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