Jenna Ebersberger is a bicoastal writer and performer who recently graduated with an MFA from the Dramatic Writing program at NYU Tisch. Before finishing her last semester, she was hired at Saturday Night Live as the researcher for Weekend Update, where she currently resides.
Jenna has trained at the trifecta of comedy institutes: The Groundlings, UCB, and The Second City. She currently performs all over New York and is also an advanced writing lab student at The Groundlings in LA, writing and performing her own sketch material. She showcased for the 2024 Just For Laughs New Faces of Comedy Festival with her unapologetically kooky female characters and has a closet dedicated solely to wigs, costumes, (and the occasional mustache.)
Off-stage, Jenna has worked in television production for several years in roles such as production secretary and showrunner’s/writer’s assistant for shows on Amazon, Nickelodeon, Paramount +, etc. And you may even recognize her voice if you're an avid podcast listener, as she is a voice-over artist for the Wondery Podcast Network. Or maybe you’ve just heard her mumble to herself on the street and thought, “Who is that weirdo?” That’s probably more likely!