Jill is a renowned screenwriter and documentary filmmaker, celebrated for her gritty, character-driven work and ability to expose the truth in unexpected ways. Her screenwriting accolades include recognition from the Austin Film Festival, the Writer's Lab, the Athena List, Unique Voices, Screencraft, the Almanack Writer's Lab, and Final Draft's Big Break competition.
Among her notable screenplays is "See Jane Fight", which was selected for the prestigious Middlebury Script Lab and ranked in the top 3% on Coverfly. Another screenplay, "Bloody Burlesque", was chosen for Meg Lefauve's Screenwriting Retreat at Hedgebrook and won Best Original Screenplay in "The Hollywood Blood Horror Competition".
Jill's recent documentary short, "Squirrel Wars", received rave reviews at its premieres at Aspen Shorts and Hot Docs, and went on to win Best Short Documentary at the Hamilton NY Film Festival. The film continues to play at various festivals.
Her feature documentary, "Fight Like A Girl", explores the empowering effects of women's boxing and has won several awards, including "Best Documentary" at the American Documentary Film Festival, the Artemis Film Festival, and the Other Venice Film Festival. Jill was honored with awards from the World Boxing Council and the Women's Boxing Hall of Fame.
Jill's critically acclaimed documentary film, "Stripped", won awards at various festivals, played theatrically in New York and LA, and was sold internationally. The film also aired on the Sundance Channel. Her other short documentaries played at festivals such as Hot Docs, Aspen Shorts, Newport Beach, AFI, Santa Barbara Film Festival, the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, and the International San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
In addition to her filmmaking work, Jill has also produced and hosted content for Vice's "Cris Cyborg: On Fighting Like a Girl" and produced a spot for Playboy's "Journalista". She worked as a researcher on Davis Guggenheim's "The Dream Is Now", a documentary about immigration reform.
As a playwright, Jill wrote and performed the critically acclaimed play, "True Confessions of a Go-Go Girl", which was published in "The Best Women's Plays of 1998", ran Off Broadway for several years, and was performed across the country. The play was also adapted into a Lifetime Movie of the Week.
Jill is a contributing writer to several periodicals, including "The Village Voice", "Bust Magazine", and "The New York Press". She has also produced radio documentaries for NPR's "This American Life" and "The World". Her short stories and monologues are published in several anthologies, including "True Tales of Lust and Love", "Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong", "Ho's Hookers, Call Girls & Rent Boys", and "Honey On a Razor".
Jill's monologues have been published in several monologue collections, alongside works by notable playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Steve Martin, David Hare, and Wendy Wasserstein. In 2015, she won the National Golden Gloves in the Masters Division and continues to teach women's boxing and coach young girls.
