Jennifer Fox Geraghty
I’ve always loved a stage. I started dancing at a very young age, and would customarily burst into song in a public forum. My parents were (usually) tolerant of these outbursts. I was constantly imaging other worlds we could live in, other creatures we could be. If you had the (mis)fortune of being a friend, a parent, or, god forbid, a sibling, you would inevitably get roped into one of these productions.
About
Lulea International Short Film Festival - Best Short Film Nominee for
“Metal Detector” - 2020
Love Your Shorts Film Festival - Best International Short Film Nominee for “Metal Detector” - 2020
American Golden International Film Festival - Best Short Film Nomineefor “Metal Detector” - 2020
Best Podcast in Paris Nominee for “The Faux-Pas Cast”- 2018
Winner MIPTV New Producer to Watch for “L’Amour (or less…)” - 2015
Winner Travel Avenue’s Favorite Blog Jennyphoria.com - 2011
Editor’s Pick: Travel Onion’s Best Travel Blog Jennyphoria.com - 2011
Me as an angel in a school recital. I’m fourth from the left.
Growing up, did you have that one annoying neighbor kid who would write plays, audition you for a role, cast herself as the lead, rehearse you to death, write out playbills and stuff them in everyone’s mailboxes, and force your parents to come watch the productions? No? Well, my neighbors did.
I think I was about 8 when I wrote my first play. It was about a sleepover and I’m sure it was riveting. My poor, tolerant neighbors.
But, if you think that was bad, imagine being related to me. I once wrote an entire sketch comedy show, replete with commercials and jingles and everything, and forced the cousins on my Mom’s side to perform it while our parents and grandparents watched.
The cousins on my Dad’s side had it even worse. Every Easter and Thanksgiving, I would write a new play about giving thanks or loving your family or whatever other Hallmark message was apropo, and cajole my cousins and sisters into acting in it with me. We had costume changes, set changes, we would go in and out of the windows…. I’ve always loved a production. This tradition carried on for years, and my family still mentions it every holiday. Sorry, guys.
Me (in the middle) with my sister and cousin in one of our Easter/Thanksgiving masterpieces.
There is one magical day from my childhood that stands out more than any other. I was 10 years old, and had just finished playing Driselda, Cinderella’s evil stepsister in the musical version of “Cinderella.” I was standing on stage, staring out at the audience, and it all clicked into place: This was home. I didn’t care if it was theatre or film or television. I wanted to tell a thousand stories. I wanted to live a thousand lives.
From that day forward, that’s what I tried to do. I started acting lessons two weeks later. When I was old enough, I attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as part of Playwright Horizons Theatre School. It was one of the best times of my life, and I’m still growing from what I was taught at the time. The friends I made there are still some of my biggest inspirations.
After graduating, I started acting in New York City, mostly in theatre and independent films, before taking the plunge and moving to Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, I had some success in film and television, but ultimately had an accident that would render me nearly completely immobile for the next few years. I could no longer act. Once this revelation hit, I moved back to New York, and began stoking my love of writing and merging it into my love of film.
This newfound passion for screenwriting (and a corrective surgery) carried me around the world, and I finally landed in Paris, France. Living in France has allowed me to see the world differently. I’m both a part of the cultural here and a little bit estranged from it, which gives me enormous freedom in creativity.
It’s now been nearly 10 years since I moved to the City of Light. There have been ups and downs, of course, but I’ve added directing and producing and editing to my reperatoire. I won “‘New Producer to Watch” in Cannes for the first TV pilot I ever wrote and directed. I’ve taught acting and improv, had screenplays optioned, and began an enterprise (Jennyphoria Academy) where I can share my passion and experience with French actors who want to work in American film and television.
Me, fourth from left, walking the red carpet at the International Emmy Awards
Moving abroad has allowed me to know myself in ways I couldn’t have imagined. And what I know is this: I want to tell a thousand stories. I want to live a thousand lives.
My latest short film “Metal Detector” was completed in 2020. It was included as part of the Short Film Corner at Clermont-Ferrand at the end of January 2020, and selected for screening at the Love Your Shorts film festival in Sanford, Florida from February 13-16, 2020, the American Golden Eagle Film Festival in June 2020, and the Lulea International Short Film Festival in Lulea, Sweden in September 2020..
I’m currently working on an interactive film project, a humorous podcast about film, and a social podcast about life as a creative in Paris. More coming soon!
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