Jennifer Prediger


Jennifer Prediger is New York City–based actress, writer, and director known for the films Uncle Kent, Red Flag, and Apartment Troubles —her directorial debut with collaborator Jess Weixler. Prediger also played and wrote Ask Umbra, the "world's most trusted eco advice columnist," on Grist.org.

Education

Science and Technology Program at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, MD. BA from College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME. MA from the California School of Professional Psychology.

Career

Filmmaker

Prediger starred in Uncle Kent, a film directed by Joe Swanberg that premiered at Sundance in 2011 and was purchased by IFC. She has also gone to Sundance with The Foxy Merkins in 2014 and A Teacher in 2013. She has a co-starring role as love interest and obsessed fan in the Gotham Award nominated comedy Red Flag, released by Tribeca Film. Prediger also has leading roles in microbudget films Richard's Wedding and Pollywogs.
She has supporting roles in The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes and Valedictorian premiering at the Rotterdam Film Festival January 2015.
She also appears in UNCLE KENT 2 and 7 CHINESE BROTHERS starring Jason Schwartzman, both of which premiered at this year's SXSW festival. Earlier this year, The New York Times called her a "busy indie actress". She plays opposite Max Casella in Applesauce which premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
Apartment Troubles is her first feature film as a director and writer, co-directed and written with Jess Weixler. The film stars Prediger and Weixler and features Megan Mullally, Will Forte and Jeffrey Tambor, and was released by Gravitas in spring 2015.

Video journalist

As a writer and video journalist, Prediger has interviewed Thom Yorke of Radiohead, Tom Hanks, and Tom Friedman. She has produced videos for the USDA, Newsweek, Nerve, Babble, Current TV, Onion News Network, The Washington Post and Barely Political. Her videos have been featured on The Huffington Post, NY1, The A.V. Club, Yahoo, MySpace, YouTube, Pitchfork, KIAH-TV in Houston, Texas and NY1. She's appeared as a commentator on The Today Show and NPR's All Things Considered.
Prediger was the creator and face of Grist.org's popular video advice series Ask Umbra. She also dished out workplace advice on a series known as Hey Penny on SlateV.

Filmography

As actor