Jeremy Kareken lives in New York and Baltimore. His short plays Hot Rod, Big Train and 80 Cards have been performed across the country and abroad. He has been a speechwriter and political analyst for two presidential campaigns. His awards include the Sewanee Conference Dakin Fellowship for Farblondjet and the Guthrie/Playwrights Center Two-Headed Challenge for The Sweet Sweet Motherhood. The Hamptons Film Festival Screenwriters’ Conference selected Kareken and David Murrell for their horror-comedy script about haunted breast implants – “THESE! Conquered the Earth!”

In 2018, PlayPenn selected Jeremy’s new political satire about an illiterate king, The Red Wool. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, and a graduate of the University of Chicago, he has taught at NYU, NYIT, Actors Studio Drama School, and currently teaches at Acting Studio-New York. A life member of the Actors Studio, Jeremy performs occasionally and was a researcher for Bravo TV’s “Inside the Actors Studio” for 18 years.