Jenny Munday is a playwright, dramaturge, director, actor, and arts administrator. She is the artistic director of the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC) and is currently the Crake Fellow in Drama at Mount Allison University and playwright-in-residence at Live Bait Theatre. She was Artistic Director of Mulgrave Road (Co-op) Theatre from 1989 to 1992, was writer-in-esidence and artistic associate at Theatre New Brunswick, and was a co-founder and co-artistic director of the Comedy Asylum.

Her twenty-five-year career has largely been dedicated to the development of new Canadian work for the stage. As an actor, she created many original roles in new works for playwrightsâ?? development centres across the countryâ??from Rising Tide Theatre in Newfoundland to the Banff Playwrights Colony. She has also worked at Neptune Theatre, Mulgrave Road Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, the Comedy Asylum, the Grand Theatre in London, at the National Arts Centre, at several summer theatres in Ontario, and in radio, TV, and film. In 2007, Jenny was awarded a Theatre Nova Scotia Merritt Achievement Award for outstanding contribution to Theatre in Nova Scotia. She also received the inaugural Mallory Gilbert Award from the Professional Association of Canadian Theatre (PACT) and Tarragon Theatre in recognition of sustained, inspired and creative leadership in Canadian Theatre. In 2011 Jenny was made an honourary member of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.