Jennifer Hoppe-House

Jennifer Hoppe-House is a film and television writer who, with her writing/producing partner Nancy Fichman, worked for ten years in the feature world before making her foray into television with a movie titled “The Dead Will Tell” for CBS, starring Anne Heche. That movie was followed by the Showtime series NURSE JACKIE, starring Edie Falco, on which she worked the first two seasons. She has written screenplays for Paramount, Dreamworks, Universal, Warner Brothers, Jersey and Columbia Studios and has written for both cable and network TV, including DAMAGES, starring Glenn Close, and two network comedies (SAVE ME, starring Anne Heche and US AND THEM, starring Jason Ritter and Alexis Bledel).

Currently Jennifer is working on her second season as a writer/producer on Netflix's hit series...

Jennifer Hoppe-House is a film and television writer who, with her writing/producing partner Nancy Fichman, worked for ten years in the feature world before making her foray into television with a movie titled “The Dead Will Tell” for CBS, starring Anne Heche. That movie was followed by the Showtime series NURSE JACKIE, starring Edie Falco, on which she worked the first two seasons. She has written screenplays for Paramount, Dreamworks, Universal, Warner Brothers, Jersey and Columbia Studios and has written for both cable and network TV, including DAMAGES, starring Glenn Close, and two network comedies (SAVE ME, starring Anne Heche and US AND THEM, starring Jason Ritter and Alexis Bledel).

Currently Jennifer is working on her second season as a writer/producer on Netflix's hit series GRACE AND FRANKIE, starring Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda. She has sold pilots to HBO, Fox Television Network, WE, TNT and Lifetime. She began as a playwright in Texas and has written smaller pieces for productions in New York and Austin, one of which was a finalist in the Actors Theatre of Louisville 10-Minute Play Competition.

BAD DOG is Jennifer's first full-length play and received an NNPN rolling premiere, first at Orlando Shakespeare Theater in April of 2015 and currently at The Olney Theater Center, recently extended through November 1, 2015. Jennifer is a member of The Writers Guild West, the Dramatists Guild of America and The Television Academy.

Scripts

BAD DOG

by Jennifer Hoppe-House

Synopsis

After ten years clean and sober, Molly Drexler falls off the wagon and drives her Prius through her living room wall. With a hole in the house as big as the hole in their hearts, Molly’s two sisters, mother, father, and wicked stepmother descend on the house for an “intervention” that doesn’t play out the way anyone thought it would.

After ten years clean and sober, Molly Drexler falls off the wagon and drives her Prius through her living room wall. With a hole in the house as big as the hole in their hearts, Molly’s two sisters, mother, father, and wicked stepmother descend on the house for an “intervention” that doesn’t play out the way anyone thought it would.