Jen Silverman Jen Silverman (they/them) is a playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Plays include: The Moors, The Roommate, Spain, Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties, and Witch. Books include The Island Dwellers, We Play Ourselves and There's Going to be Trouble. Silverman is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a New Dramatists alum, and a Scholar of Note at the American Library in Paris. Honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim.