Originally from Houston, Texas, Jenny attended Georgetown University, where she initially started out studying business. On the way to her accounting final at the end of freshman year, she walked into a photography exhibit and had an epiphany that she wanted to be an artist, and that she would never be a businesswoman. After changing her major to English and her minor to French, she started acting in student plays and films and studied everything she found to be interesting. She graduated with honors and a few months later moved to New York to pursue acting.

Jenny has acted in several independent films, including the feature film Toss It, directed by Michele Remsen, which you can currently catch on Amazon Prime. She appeared in Magic Hour starring Miriam Shor and directed by Jacqueline Christy, currently in post-production. Jenny has appeared in performances and readings at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Urban Stages, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Lark, Naked Angels, HB Theatre, and the Dramatists Guild. She has also worked regularly with the Abingdon Theatre Company s playwrights group. She has studied with John Gould Rubin and Rob McCaskill, and at Stella Adler and The Matthew Corozine Studio. ((
She is the author of two plays, A Rat Bastard for Love and The Bride. A Rat Bastard for Love, a play about romance, religious fundamentalism, and cross-dressing, was developed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre s First Brew reading series and at the McCaskill Studio. The Bride, about infidelity, growing up, and getting married for all the wrong reasons, recently received a Memberfest staged reading at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. She is currently writing a feature film. For more, please visit Jenny s website at jennyzerke.com.