Jenny Takahashi Stark

Jenny is a British screenwriter of English-Japanese ancestry. She is the winner of the All3Media New Voices TV Drama Script Award 2022, Richmond International Film Festival Finalist 2022, Final Draft Big Break Quarter-Finalist 2022, Creative Corridor Winner 2021, amongst others. She is also a Screenwriters' Network Short Film Screenplay Finalist and Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Semi-Finalist (2021). Her work spans genres including drama, comedy drama and thriller.

Jenny is primarily a TV and Film writer, though she’s also had theatre plays performed at Southwark Playhouse, Theatre 503, Buxton Fringe and Cheltenham Everyman Theatre. She is passionate about representing diversity (particularly mixed race, East Asian and female voices) on screen and stage.

London (Greater London)



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  • TV - Weirdly Normal - All3Media New Voices TV Drama Script Winner 2022

  • Film - Rie & Mia - Richmond International Film Festival Finalist 2022 and Screenwriter's Network Short Film Competition Finalist

  • Theatre - Aiko - Taking Flight Competition Winner - Cheltenham Everyman Theatre

  • Theatre - Stroke - Commissioned for The State We're In Festival - Theatre 503

  • Theatre - Red Balloon - Little Pieces of Gold Competition Winner - Southwark Playhouse and Theatre 503

  • Theatre - Nine Sugars - Theatre 503


Comedy, Film, Television, Theatre