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, host, journalist, and producer. Riley wrote the 2015 short film Warning Labels, directed by Jennifer Morrison, and was the original host of Varietys Actors on Actors, for which she has won a Daytime Emmy Award and two Los Angeles Emmy Awards. She was also an editor for Variety and contributor to The Huffington Post. 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.
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. 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 2004The Perfect Candidate Writer 2004Crazy Love Writer Winner: Palm Springs Shortsfest 2004An Inconvenient Affair Writer 2004The B.P.R.D. Declassified Student Television film 2005The Swap Writer 2005–presentSAG 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 2026 My Ex-Life Writer
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