---
name: "Jenni Konner"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jenni-konner"
fi1m_id: "jenni-konner"
imdb_id: "nm1493255"
tmdb_id: 1235087
wikidata_id: "Q23091838"
roles: ["Director","Producer","Writer"]
born: "15 May 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T00:43:52.513002+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."
---

# Jenni Konner

## Identity

Jenni Konner

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jenni-konner
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jenni-konner
- **IMDb ID:** nm1493255
- **TMDB ID:** 1235087
- **Wikidata ID:** Q23091838
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenni_Konner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091838, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1493255/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1235087

Director and producer. Born 15 May 1971 in Brooklyn.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer, Writer
- **Born:** 15 May 1971, Brooklyn
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Also known as:** Jennifer Konner
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 directing, 1 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Bruce Eric Kaplan](https://film.one/person/bruce-eric-kaplan.md), [Jamie Babbit](https://film.one/person/jamie-babbit.md), [Jesse Peretz](https://film.one/person/jesse-peretz.md), [Oz Rodriguez](https://film.one/person/oz-rodriguez.md), [Richard Shepard](https://film.one/person/richard-shepard.md), [Sarah Heyward](https://film.one/person/sarah-heyward.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 73 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenni_Konner, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23091838, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1493255/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1235087

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Girls*](https://film.one/tv/girls.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*Nobody Wants This*](https://film.one/tv/nobody-wants-this.md) (78)
- **Disney+:** [*Deli Boys*](https://film.one/tv/deli-boys.md) (68)

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## Fi1m on Jenni Konner

> Jenni Konner is a showrunner first and a director on two occasions, and her mark is the hardest kind to see: the one on the writing. *Girls* at its plainest is where we find it, and it is worth finding.

Watch the episodes of *Girls* (2012) in which Hannah is shut in a room with one other person and the show turns into a small, exact two-hander, and you are watching the writing at its plainest. The direction on the best of those is Richard Shepard's. The words are Lena Dunham's, with Jenni Konner and a staff that included Judd Apatow and Bruce Eric Kaplan, and that is the difficulty with Konner: the work we rate most highly has other people's names on it too. A showrunner's mark is the hardest kind to see. You have to look at what did not go wrong.

She came up as a writer, with her partner Alexandra Rushfield on *Undeclared* (2001) and then on two series that did not last, and spent time doctoring film scripts, *Transformers: Dark of the Moon* among them, before Dunham brought her in as co-showrunner on *Girls*. There she was known as the grown-up, the one who kept the writing staff working while Dunham was in front of the camera. We think that shows on screen. *Girls* is coarse, and the coarseness is carefully placed; somebody was deciding where. Its world is small and the middle seasons wander, but the best episodes are as honest as television gets, and we came away from more than one of them feeling we had been told something about ourselves we would sooner not have heard. The reason is the plainness. Nobody in those rooms is given a line that lets them off.

Her directing amounts to two episodes of *Girls*, the season-five finale and the last episode of all. She put it simply at the time: "I had been sitting next to the most talented people in the world for five years and watching them do their job and I really wanted an opportunity to direct the show before it ended." She had little experience and leaned on the cast and crew, and it looks like it: unfussy, one overhead shot at the close of her first episode inspired by *Taxi Driver*, and otherwise content to stay out of the actors' way. We would not call her a director on that evidence, and we doubt she would either.

Since 2018 she has run her own company and put her name on *Camping* (2018), which she created, wrote and directed on, *Welcome to Chippendales* (2022), *Single Drunk Female* (2022) and *Deli Boys*, before joining *Nobody Wants This* (2024) as co-showrunner and writer from its second season. We liked that one well enough. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody are convincing together and the supporting cast is funny, and the writing does too little with the religious difference it has put between them. That is a writing-room problem, and the writing room is now hers. Whether the show does more with it under her is the thing worth checking when you go back.

## Biography

Jenni Konner is an American television writer, producer and director. She was born on 15 May 1971 in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She began her career writing for series including *Undeclared* (2001) and later collaborated with Alexandra Rushfield on *Help Me Help You* and *In the Motherhood*.

Konner is best known for her long partnership with Lena Dunham as co-showrunner, writer and executive producer on the HBO series *Girls* (2012–2017). She also directed two episodes of the show. The pair co-founded the production company A Casual Romance and the newsletter *Lenny Letter*. Konner later established her own company and has executive-produced or written for *Camping* (2018), *Welcome to Chippendales* (2022), *Single Drunk Female* (2022), *Genera+ion* (2021) and *Deli Boys* (2025). She served as showrunner, writer and executive producer on the second season of *Nobody Wants This* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *Deli Boys* (2025), Fi1m 68, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/deli-boys.md)
- *Girls* (2012), Fi1m 82, Writer, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/girls.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Nobody Wants This* (2024), Fi1m 78, Writer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/nobody-wants-this.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Deli Boys* (2025), series, Producer, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/deli-boys.md)
- *Nobody Wants This* (2024), series, Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/nobody-wants-this.md)
- *Welcome to Chippendales* (2022), series, Teleplay, Executive Producer
- *Single Drunk Female* (2022), series, Executive Producer
- *Genera+ion* (2021), series, Executive Producer
- *Camping* (2018), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator
- *Lenny* (2018), Director
- *Tokyo Project* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Suited* (2016), Producer
- *Girls* (2012), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/girls.md)
- *In the Motherhood* (2009), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Help Me Help You* (2006), series, Executive Producer, Creator
- *The O'Keefes* (2003), series, Writer
- *Undeclared* (2001), series, Writer, Story Editor

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