Background
Crittenden was born on August 29, 1969.
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Jennifer Crittenden
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She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992.
Career
She started her writing career on the animated television series The Simpsons, and has since written for several other television sitcoms including Everybody Loves Raymond and Seinfeld. Crittenden has written five episodes for The Simpsons, the first being (1995) and the latest being (1997). Crittenden was taking a beginners" writing program at 20th Century Fox when former The Simpsons show runner David Mirkin hired her on the show.
Crittenden"s only writing experience before that had been as an intern on the Late Show with David Letterman.
20th Century Fox had introduced Crittenden to Mirkin, and Mirkin read a script of hers that he liked so he hired her. In addition, she wrote and executive produced Everybody Loves Raymond, and served as a writer and producer on later seasons of Seinfeld, from 1996.
Crittenden also worked on The Drew Carey Show, as a consulting producer on Arrested Development, and as a writer and co-executive producer on the Columbia Broadcasting System series The New Adventures of Old Christine. Crittenden adapted the novel 20 Times a Lady for the 2011 film What"s Your Number? alongside Gabrielle Allen.
The two have a multi-show deal with American Broadcasting Company.
Their first project will focus on "a "super cool" 1990s all-girl band who, after 20 years of bad blood, tries to reunite though they’re no longer girls and no longer cool." They will write and executive produce the project
Achievements
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Her work has earned her several Emmy Award nominations. Foreign her work, Crittenden has won two Humanitas Prizes and has earned five Emmy Award-nominations: four for "Outstanding Comedy Series" (Seinfeld in 1998 and Everybody Loves Raymond in 2000, 2001, and 2002) and one for "Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series" (Everybody Loves Raymond in 2002).
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United States