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Jennie Snyder Urman | |
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Born | June 6, 1975 |
Occupation(s) | Producer, writer |
Years active | 2003–present |
Spouse | Jamie Urman |
Children | 2 |
Jennie Snyder Urman (born June 6, 1975) [1] is an American television producer. She grew up in Rye, New York. [2] Urman is Jewish. [3]
Urman has been involved in the production of several television programs including: Hope & Faith , Gilmore Girls , Men in Trees , Lipstick Jungle , 90210 , Emily Owens, M.D. , Reign , Jane the Virgin and Charmed .
Urman worked initially as a waitress in New York City while she looked for acting opportunities. [1] Eventually she gave up her acting ambition, saying she was not "thick-skinned enough or perhaps talented enough or wanted it enough as a career" [1] to be on screen. Profiling Urman for Variety , Bob Verini stated, that Urman "like many tyros, initially found it hard to stop defining herself by her day job"; she was told "to stop waitressing. This is a job." [4] On September 10, 2001, Urman and her friend, Victoria Webster, left New York City for Los Angeles to pursue a career writing for television. [1]
Urman got her start in television writing in 2003, working as a staff writer on the ABC comedy Hope & Faith . She worked with the show for three years, first as a writer, then as a story editor, and finally, the executive story editor. [1] In an interview with the Alumni of Princeton, Urman explained, "[the] ladder you climb when you're a TV writer [...] You start as a staff writer and go through each level until you become an executive producer." [2] [5]
In 2012, Urman was named one of Variety's "10 TV Writers to Watch". [2] In 2014, she signed a deal with CBS. [6]
Year (s) | Television Program | Title |
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2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 | Hope & Faith | Staff writer Story editor Executive story editor |
2006–2007 | Gilmore Girls | Co-producer |
2007–2008 | Men in Trees | Producer |
2008–2009 | Lipstick Jungle | Supervising producer |
2009 2009–2011 | 90210 | Supervising producer Co-executive producer |
2012–2013 | Emily Owens, M.D. | Creator, executive producer, writer |
2013–2014 | Reign | Consulting producer |
2014–2019 | Jane the Virgin | Creator, executive producer, writer |
2018–2022 | Charmed | Executive producer, writer |
2020 | Broke | Executive producer, writer |
2022 [7] | Good Sam | Executive producer |
2024 | Matlock | Executive producer, writer |
Urman's show Jane the Virgin first aired in 2014. The show was inspired and adapted from Perla Farías' Venezuelan telenovela Juana la virgen , with a log line that reads "a girl gets artificially inseminated." [1] When initially introduced to the inspiration behind Jane the Virgin, Urman thought, "I don't know about that. That sounds too crazy for me." [8] Urman served as executive producer, showrunner, and writer for the series. [1]
Something Borrowed (2011) was Urman's first project writing for film, based on Emily Giffin's novel of the same name. Critic A. O. Scott, reviewing Urman's script in Luke Greenfield's Something Borrowed for The New York Times , described the film as "a well-meaning comedy of marriage that seems ardently committed to the blandness of its characters." [9] Urman received criticism for the dialogue in particular. Scott criticized not only the characterization, but also the diction, quoting from the film. [9]
Urman graduated from Princeton University in 1999 with a BA in English and a Certificate from the Program in Theater. [2] She is married to Jamie Urman, a cinematographer, with whom she has two children. [1]
Urman has said she is often questioned about her "work-life balance…[which] strikes me as sort of funny, because it's not something that often gets asked of men in this business. It's been a balancing act, and I feel lucky that I found a true partner in my husband. We support each other in all aspects of life, so when my work-life balance gets out of whack, he steps up and takes off of work to be home with the kids, something I'm really grateful for." [2]
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