Jennifer Zhang

Jennifer Zhang’s career began in publishing, but—finding that her passion for storytelling couldn’t be satisfied in print—she very quickly made inroads into entertainment and the video game industry.

Prior to becoming a web personality with her viral video game parody videos, comic book fan films, her 2012 feature film The Evil Inside , and being hired to produce and host Jace Hall’s Twin Galaxies Live…

Jennifer Zhang had spent years as an editor on several dining guides for Hungry City (in its time, a leading competitor of Zagat), ghostwriting three teen self-help books for Kaplan, and co-authoring The ADD and ADHD Cure (Wiley, 2008) with celebrity pediatrician Jay Gordon—a book that received ringing endorsements from Julia Roberts, David Duchovny, Tobey Maguire, and Matt Damon. By the time she was 23, she had several books on the shelves of Barnes and Noble and Borders nationwide.

While making headway in her publishing career, Jennifer was also writing and producing for Expanded Books – a company that created slick made-for-the-web book trailers for major publishing houses across the country. In her position at the company, she wrote interview questions and helped to produce over 100 videos featuring authors, illustrators and public figures, including George R.R. Martin, Terry Brooks, Orson Scott Card, Maurice Sendak and former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen.

Simultaneously, Jennifer was contracted to write a number of pilots, executive summaries and reality show treatments for programs that were pitched to Yahoo! TV, MTV and Nickelodeon by Todd Stevens , co-executive producer of the hit sitcom “Friends”.

In 2009-2010, Jennifer worked under contract with the Walt Disney Company as a writer heading up the web copy for the national “What will you celebrate?” and “Give a Day. Get a Disney Day.” marketing campaigns – the former for which she won an industry award , and the latter of which allowed her to work with the Muppets.

Her stint in the corporate world was paired with a concentrated effort to launch a career as a screenwriter, filmmaker and actress. It was during this period that she began taking acting classes and studied screenwriting under the late, great Blake Snyder. A graduate of his Beat Sheet Workshop and Master Class, she has since been penning and shopping screenplays using his revolutionary and highly effective Save the Cat! method.

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