Jen Tullock

Jennifer Tullock is an American actress and writer known for her role in Apple TV+'s Severance. She earned a BFA in acting from Millikin University and developed her career in Brooklyn, working in theatre, improv, voice-over, commercials, and solo performances, including world premieres in Chicago and New York. She co-wrote and co-starred in Before You Know It, which premiered at Sundance, and participated in the Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab. Tullock created the mockumentary Eggshell, contributed to writers’ rooms for digital series, wrote for HuffPost Queer Voices, co-hosted Heritage Radio Network’s The Morning After, and premiered her solo show You Shall Inherit the Earth!. She has also served as a mentor for Sundance programs. Her theater credits include multiple plays in Chicago and New York, including the world premiere of Frank Winter's "On the Head of a Pin" at 59E59 St. Theater. TV shows include Casual, Smilf, Bless This Mess, and Cameron Crowe's Roadies. In 2017 she appeared alongside Dave Franco and Abbi Jacobson in Netflix original film 6 Balloons, Hulu original "Door No. 1," and Nora Kirkpatrick's "Best Seller," produced by Will Ferrell's Gloria Sanchez productions. She went on to star in Sam Benenati's viral short film Red Light, in which she plays all eight characters. Tullock's writing has been featured onstage at The New York Stage & Film Festival, in print as a contributing writer to the Huffington Post Queer Voices, and on Funny or Die's series "The Coop," which she also starred in. In 2020, she created Eggshellworld.com, a satirical collection of social media videos examining the fragility of suburban white women. She is the award-winning narrator of several New York Times best-selling audio books and the voice of the title character in Emmy award winning short Henry. Originally from Kentucky, she began performing on the stage of her childhood evangelical church before leaving the faith as a teen. Tullock is openly gay and much of her writing satirizes her childhood experiences in evangelical culture. From 2011-2013 Tullock co-hosted Heritage Radio's food and wine show "The Morning After" with sommelier Jess Kiefer, often satirizing food and wine culture as characters ranging from Joan Plowright to Björk. She'll next star in Apple TV+ original "Severance" alongside Patricia Arquette and Adam Scott, and in movie musical "Spirited" alongside Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, and Octavia Spencer. She lives in Los Angeles and New York.