Jenna is an award-winning author and playwright. Her columns for TC Jewfolk were the basis for Her book Crooked Lines and frequently went viral at sites around the country. She is also the author of three middle-grade books: The Beat on Ruby’s Street, Fool's Errand and North Beat Christmas, released by Dragon Moon Press. All books achieved top-50 ranking in select Amazon categories. The Beat on Ruby’s Street won first prize from Wishing Shelf awards in the UK and was a finalist for the Minnesota Author’s Project.
Her play A Body of Water was published by Dramatists Play Service, produced at Circle Repertory Company in New York and chosen by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture as a play that "breaks new ground." She is also a lyricist and is still trying to figure out if it’s easier to write a play, book or a song.
A performer and composer, Gary Rue has been playing music for audiences throughout the western hemisphere since the mid-’60s, beginning with various town halls in the upper Midwest and graduating to East Coast “tent” tours that included the Big Apple (Carnegie Hall as music director and duet partner for Gene Pitney) and on to far-flung points in Canada and the Caribbean. Early along the way, Rue began writing music of his own and was rewarded with some of his songs being recorded by (among others) Nick Lowe and Helen Reddy, as well as many prominent regional artists. He is the author of nearly 80 scores for music theatre, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales, which toured the U.S. and China with Dallas Children’s Theater. Rue is also a 2010 Minnesota Music Hall of Fame inductee and an active touring musician and educator.
