First Jen
First Jen
Television (Half-hour)
· Comedy · 30 pages
Status: Spec
As punishment for her misbehavior, angsty Ukrainian-American teenager Zhenya "Jen" Sorkin goes to live with her grandmother in Brighton Beach, where Jen struggles to keep a balance between the youthful American culture in her hometown Manhattan, and her new community's traditional Soviet values.
Written by
Monica Furman
1 Writer
Brooklyn, New York
Monica Furman explores and defines the origins of her community’s hybrid identity through multimedia content to increase authentic representation of Ukrainian and Jewish diasporic people in America. Growing up on the precipice of assimilation and multiculturalism (shout out to first-generation Americans), she brandishes humor, multiple languages, an...
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Additional Project Info
1st Runner Up for the Reproductions Summer Screenplay Contest Finalist (Top 3% out of 1K submissions) for The Orchard Project's inaugural Episodic TV Lab