Jena Friedman is a comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker living in New York. She is currently a writer for Late Show with David Letterman. Her work has also been featured in New York Magazine, Newsweek, Glamour, Salon, Gawker, Current TV, The Huffington Post, Funny or Die, Atom.com, Time Out New York and on Comedy Central.

Jena performs stand up comedy (and sometimes spoken word) around the world, most recently at The Glasgow International Comedy Festival, SXSW Music and Comedy Festival, The Kukabarra Comedy Club in Berlin, Germany, The Pranzo in Paris, France and The Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon.

Jena has appeared in music videos (like this one, starring Jon Hamm) and sketches on Atom.com, Funny or Die, UCBcomedy.com, College Humor and was recently the female lead in American Florence, an independent feature film shot in Italy and expected to be released Fall 2012. In addition, her play, The Refugee Girls Revue: A Musical Parody, received critical acclaim in The 2008 New York International Fringe Festival and had a successful run off-broadway at Theatre 80.  Jena hosts a monthly variety show in the East Village called “Entertaining the Bartender,” a goal the show often lives up to.