Reverend Jen Miller
(also known as Saint Reverend Jen
and Reverend Jen
— born Jennifer Miller
on July 24, 1972 in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American performer, underground movie star, writer, painter, director, preacher, and poet from Manhattan, New York City.
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Miller writes the "Diary of an Art Star" column for
Artnet and wrote the "I Did It for Science" column for
nerve.com for two years. She is also the host of the
Anti-Slam on Manhattan's
Lower East Side, an open mike that ran for twelve years until fall 2007, with its longest run at
Collective:Unconscious Theater on Ludlow Street.
She is the author of
Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood
[1], a writer for
Toxic Pop, and star and writer of
The Adventures of Electra Elf and Fluffer
, a
low budget cable access television show produced by
Nick Zedd about a superhero and her sidekick dog, co-starring
Francis McNerdz,
Faceboy and
Andrew J. Lederer. She played "Tina, the script girl" in the
Troma movie
Terror Firmer and The Elf Queen in
Lord of the Cockrings
, which she also wrote. Her handmade books are collected by the
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Miller coined the phrase "
Art Star," which denotes a movement of performers, artists, poets, and other individuals centered around the Lower East Side. She is the founder of
Art Star Scene Magazine, which is devoted to promoting musicians, artists, poets, etc through art. She is also the music video director for singer
Moby's single "New York, New York." At the end of the video, Moby is seen kissing Miller's dog, Rev. Jen, Jr.
[2]
Miller is currently writing a new book.
Filmography
- The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway
(2006)
- Electra Elf: The Beginning Parts One & Two
(2005)
- I Was a Quality of Life Violation
(2004)
- Lord of the Cockrings
(2002)
- Thus Spake Zarathustra
(2001)
- Elf Panties: The Movie
(2001) - edited by Andreas Troeger
- Terror Firmer
(1999)
Books
Miller is the author of multiple books, as follows:
- Live Nude Elf: The Sexperiments of Reverend Jen
- Sex Symbol for the Insane
- Cliff Notes for Sex Symbol for the Insane
- Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood
- Diary of an Art Star
- Magical Elf Panties : A Coloring Book
- Elf Panties: Audio-Visual Fun!
- Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood/Les Misrahi
- Treasuries of the Troll Museum
- Being a Supermodel is Cool
- Being Different is Cool
- Be Careful What You Wish For: A Coloring Book
- Beer is Magic
- Don't Call Me Rat-Dog!
- People Who Don't Like My Work Are Bad People: A Memoir
- Reverend Jen's Trip to the Hospital
- Reverend Jen Junior Groovee Paper Dolls
- Reverend Jen Paper Doll Fun
Other releases
- Rev Jen's Greatest Hits
- Spoken word album (audio cassette)
- "Don't Call Me Rat Dog" on the compilation album, Rachel Trachtenburg's Homemade World
References
- On The Cusp
- Diary of an Art Star