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name: "Jeff Whitty"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jeff-whitty"
roles: ["Writer","Screenwriter"]
born: "30 September 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T09:05:34.936617+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jeff Whitty

Writer and screenwriter. Born 30 September 1971 in Coos Bay, Oregon, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Screenwriter
- **Born:** 30 September 1971, Coos Bay, Oregon, USA
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Whitty, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6175265, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1036221/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1437482

## Biography

Jeff Whitty is an American playwright, screenwriter and actor. Born on 30 September 1971 in Coos Bay, Oregon, he trained as an actor, earning an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program, and has appeared in small roles in films including *Shortbus* (2006) and *Garmento* (2002), as well as television series such as *As the World Turns*.

Whitty is best known as a writer. He won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for the Broadway hit *Avenue Q* (2003). His screenplay for the film *Can You Ever Forgive Me?* (2018), co-written with Nicole Holofcener and based on Lee Israel’s memoir, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, a Writers Guild of America Award and several other honours. He has also written the books for musicals including *Bring It On* and *Head Over Heels*, and several plays.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com, jeffwhitty.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Can You Ever Forgive Me?* (2018), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/can-you-ever-forgive-me.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, The Musical* (2021), Writer
- *Can You Ever Forgive Me?* (2018), Screenplay — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/can-you-ever-forgive-me.md)
- *Shortbus* (2006), as Jacuzzi Hunted
- *Lisa Picard Is Famous* (2000), as Greg

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2019: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Can You Ever Forgive Me?*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical 2004: Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (won), for *Avenue Q*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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