About Jennifer

Jennifer Granville began her career as an actor in repertory, going on to work in TV, film and London’s West End – appearing in the off-Broadway hit Women Behind Bars alongside the iconic Divine.

 

As a writer, her work for film and theatre includes national tours of The Turn of the Screw and A Christmas Carol, with her screenplays winning awards at La Femme, 21st Century, and Latino Screenwriting Competitions.

 

Her experimental screenplay, MSI: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations, has taken many forms — a live performance, a chamber music composition, and, in 2019, a graphic novel titled Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations, published by Princeton University Press.

She wrote and performed...

…a one-woman play ‘The Rule of Three’ at festivals in the US, re-wrote it as a musical for performance at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London and is currently adapting it into a novel.

She produced...

…award winning films including:

  • The Secret Songs of Butterfish, which aired on television internationally and won the Gold Plaque, Chicago and Special Jury Award at the New York Expo.

  • On the Roof, a Fuji Film Award-winning short.

  • The Real Fawlty Towers, for Anglia Television directed by Lindy Heymann.

  • the experimental Winesburg, Ohio, adapted from Sherwood Anderson’s eponymous book

  • and Lost in Winesburg a feature length documentary charting the making of the film.

She directed the documentary Stephen Burrows’ World, celebrating the African American fashion designer, and Coke Not Coal, which was nominated for an AHRC Award for its innovative use of film in research.

She taught...

…as Professor of producing and screenwriting at Ohio University’s School of Film before returning to her alma mater as Director of the Northern Film School. There, she developed degree programs, led innovative European projects like Mining the Memories (on the 1985 Miners’ Strike) and CINAGE: Cinema for Active Ageing, and co-wrote The Casting Handbook for emerging directors and producers.