Jenny Lumet wrote the screenplay for “Rachel Getting Married” for which she received the 2008 New York Film Critics Circle Award, 2008 Toronto Film Critics Association Award and 2008 Washington D.C Film Critics Association Award. She also received a 2008 NAACP Image Award. She is also the writer of the screen adaptations The Center Cannot Hold and The Language of Flowers, and the upcoming Dreamworks project The Jumbies. She served as a script doctor on the films “Remember Me,” “Bobbie Sue,” “Honeymoon with Harry” and “The Mummy.” She’s also written several other original screenplays, including “Kingdom of Louie” and “Sambo.”
Jenny Lumet is the co-creator and executive producer of the CBS drama series CLARICE, a sequel to the award-winning film “Silence of the Lambs,” and served as co-creator and showrunner of the award winning Showtime series THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH. She has an overall deal with CBS Studios and is an executive producer on STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, and a creator of the Peabody award winning STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS and the upcoming STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY. She also co-wrote the episode “Runaway” for the Emmy-nominated series STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS.
Additionally, in partnership with CBS Studios, Ms. Lumet along with Alex Kurtzman have established a new multiplatform production entity 25 Stories, which is aimed at amplifying voices for people of color and creating sustainable career paths, from staff writer to showrunner. In the new venture, they are developing content for linear, premium cable and streaming platforms. They have served as producers on ROB PEACE directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, and starring Mary J. Blige and Camilla Cabello. They are also executive producers on MOTHER MOTHER, which will also be shown at this year’s Toronto Film Festival. They are also executive producers on the documentary LIFT, which can be streamed on Apple+.
Also upcoming, Ms. Lumet serves as creator, executive producer and writer on “Blackbird: Lena Horne and America”, which is based on the life of her grandmother, the incomparable entertainer and activist Lena Horne.
Ms. Lumet served on the council of the Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) and the board of the Writers Guild Initiative. She generated the WGAE’s first Diversity Caucus.
Ms. Lumet lives in Los Angeles with her children.
