Hailing from an international background, JJ Harrington is an Irish American screenwriter, filmmaker, and educator. She is a former recipient of competitive film, funding awards, both writing and directing for the Irish Film Board, RTE and Film Base. She received a Tyrone Guthrie artist’s bursary for the completion of her feature screenplay,Tenebrae. Her shorts have screened at international festivals, and been nationally broadcast an RTE. She has taught film at institutions including Trinity College, Dublin, and was formally the head of the film department at Pulse College at Windmill Lane Recording Studios. During this time she provided feedback for, and coordinated the production of myriad screenplays, short live action, music, video, and documentary projects. She is a member of the writers Guild of Ireland.