Jen Tullock

Tullock was born on July 4, 1983, and is from Louisville, Kentucky.^[5] Her younger brother, Ryan, is a touring bassist for the indie pop band Tennis.^[6] She grew up in Jeffersontown and Crescent Hill. She attended the Christian Academy of Louisville until her final year of school, when she attended Eastern High School.^[7] After graduating from high school, she studied at Millikin University and graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in acting.^[8][9]

Tullock moved to Brooklyn in 2007, where she worked as a theatre actor and writer. She also practiced improv, performed one-person shows, did voice-over work, and acted in commercials.^[6] She performed in plays in Chicago and New York City, including the world premiere of Frank Winters' On the Head of a Pin at 59E59 Theatres.^[10]

The principal cast of Severance, including Tullock, was nominated for a 2022 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.^[11] For her role as Anita in season two of HBO's Perry Mason, she was nominated for an Astra TV Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Broadcast Network or Cable Drama Series.^[12]

In 2019, Tullock co-wrote and co-starred (with Hannah Pearl Utt) in the drama film Before You Know It, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. Previously, her short film with Utt, Partners, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and their feature film was a participant in the 2017 Sundance Screenwriters' Lab.^[13] Their series Disengaged was produced for the streaming platform Super Deluxe.^[14]

In 2020, Tullock created Eggshell, a mockumentary project consisting of fictional social media videos satirizing suburban white women.^[3] A work of hers was performed at the New York Stage and Film Powerhouse Theater Training Program in 2010.^[15] She wrote for HuffPost's Queer Voices,^[16] and was in the writers' room for Funny or Die series The Coop, in which she also starred.^[17]

She was the writer and co-host of the Heritage Radio Network's show The Morning After.^[18] In 2024, she premiered her solo show You Shall Inherit the Earth!, about her experience and thoughts while suffering a stroke; the show was directed by Josh Ruben.^[19] She is a Sundance Feature Film Program committee mentor^{[citation needed]} and former Sundance screenwriting fellow.^{[citation needed]}

Tullock is a lesbian.^[20] On May 11, 2023, she married Marie Ronn in New York.^[21]