16 Facts About Jenni Konner

Jennifer A Konner was born on May 15,1971 and is an American television writer, producer and director.

Jenni Konner is best known as co-showrunner and writer with Lena Dunham of the HBO series Girls.

Jenni Konner was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, California.

Jenni Konner is daughter of American television writers Lawrence Konner and Ronnie Wenker-Konner.

Jenni Konner has a younger brother, Jeremy Jenni Konner, who directs and produces the Comedy Central program Drunk History.

Jenni Konner graduated from Crossroads School, a progressive high school in Santa Monica.

Jenni Konner was hired on a few big-budget Hollywood films to help the writers flesh out their female characters, most notably Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

Jenni Konner was first introduced to Lena Dunham's work through watching Dunham's 2010 film Tiny Furniture.

Jenni Konner was a big fan of the film and so jumped at the opportunity when HBO offered her the role of supervising Dunham for her new series Girls.

Since then Jenni Konner has become the show's official co-show-runner, an executive producer and she has written occasional episodes.

Dunham and Jenni Konner are good friends and have collaborated on several other projects.

In July 2018 Dunham and Jenni Konner released a joint statement to The Hollywood Reporter where they stated they had made the decision to split as producing partners ahead of the December expiration date of their joint overall deal with HBO for their A Casual Romance Productions banner.

When she returned from rehab, Dunham and Jenni Konner went their separate ways.

In January 2015, Dunham and Jenni Konner released a documentary for HBO about Hilary Knight, the illustrator of the children's books Eloise.

Jenni Konner worked as the Executive Producer on the project and it was their first production with their company A Casual Romance.

Jenni Konner has produced the HBO series Camping and Generation.