Jennie Snyder Urman

Jennie Snyder Urman (born June 6, 1975) is an American television producer. She grew up in Rye, New York, United States. Urman completed her post-secondary education at Princeton University, graduating in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Certificate from the Program in Theater. She is married to husband, Jamie Urman, a cinematographer; they have two children, a son named Theo, and a daughter named Poppy.

Urman has been involved in the production of numerous well known and successful television programs including: Hope & Faith, Gilmore Girls, Men in Trees, Lipstick Jungle, 90210, Emily Owens, M.D., Reign, and most recently Jane the Virgin.

Jennie Snyder Urman "was named one of Variety's '10 TV Writer's to Watch' in 2012." Urman worked initially as a waitress in New York City while she looked for opportunities in front of the camera. Her acting endeavors were to no avail as she describes herself as not "thick-skinned enough or perhaps talented enough or wanted it enough as a career" to be in front of the lens. Verini states, that Urman "like many tyros, initially found it hard to stop defining herself by her day job" she was told "'to stop waitressing. This is a job.'" On September 10, 2001, Urman and her friend, Victoria Webster, left New York City for Los Angeles to pursue a career writing for television. Urman describes the historical context of the move from New York, as "disconcerting" given the duo landed on the West Coast, one day prior to September 11th, 2001. Bob Verini, postulates that Urman "deciding to crank out a slew of spec TV episodes with an old college roommate proved the catalyst for [her], who in less than a decade has [since] parlayed credits on Gilmore Girls and 90210 into creating and exec producing The CW's fall medical skein Emily Owens, M.D.."

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