Heather Julia Juergensen (born January , ) is an American actress and
writer.Juergensen was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She
graduated from Stuyvesant High School in . Soon after, she began
writing and performing for the stage in both New York and Los Angeles.
Early on she was cast to co-star opposite Frank Vincent in the
independent film The Afterlife of Grandpa, but turned it down to study
psychology at McGill University.While at an acting and writing
workshop sponsored by New York's Ensemble Studio Theater, she
collaborated with Jennifer Westfeldt in writing a series of scenes
produced Off-Broadway under the name "Lipschtick". The response to one
of the scenes inspired them to write a film script about a bisexual
woman and a straight woman who fall into a romantic relationship. The
film was developed by a studio but not produced. They held script
readings and sold shares to buy back the script rights and pay for the
film's production. The result was the award-winning film Kissing
Jessica Stein.She has written screenplays/teleplays for Miramax,
Warner Brothers, ABC, VH- and CBS, among others. Her first foray into
writing for herself as an actress was her one-woman show Letters to
Ben Stein, an imaginary tale of an epistolary romance with the
actor/economist.
writer.Juergensen was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She
graduated from Stuyvesant High School in . Soon after, she began
writing and performing for the stage in both New York and Los Angeles.
Early on she was cast to co-star opposite Frank Vincent in the
independent film The Afterlife of Grandpa, but turned it down to study
psychology at McGill University.While at an acting and writing
workshop sponsored by New York's Ensemble Studio Theater, she
collaborated with Jennifer Westfeldt in writing a series of scenes
produced Off-Broadway under the name "Lipschtick". The response to one
of the scenes inspired them to write a film script about a bisexual
woman and a straight woman who fall into a romantic relationship. The
film was developed by a studio but not produced. They held script
readings and sold shares to buy back the script rights and pay for the
film's production. The result was the award-winning film Kissing
Jessica Stein.She has written screenplays/teleplays for Miramax,
Warner Brothers, ABC, VH- and CBS, among others. Her first foray into
writing for herself as an actress was her one-woman show Letters to
Ben Stein, an imaginary tale of an epistolary romance with the
actor/economist.
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