Biography of Jenni Matz

Jenni Matz is our Project Manager. An archivist with a Masters in Library & Information Science from Simmons College, Jenni had previously worked as a documentary filmmaker, researcher, producer, director, and editor.

Jenni's production credits include The American Experience: Hoover Dam (PBS), American Passages (Annenberg/CPB), This Week in History (The History Channel), The Greatest Generation II and Gay Hollywood (MSNBC), Blue's Clues (Nickelodeon), and numerous independent productions. She was a Line Producer for Diane Sawyer and has edited music videos for Interscope/Geffen. In addition to her film/television background, Jenni worked in radio and was the Producer of the WFMU Record Convention; the largest in the Northeast.

Jenni's experience with conducting oral histories began many years ago as an interviewer for radio. Her first published book was edited from interviews with antiquarian book collectors: Reminiscences and Remembrances of Herman and Aveve Cohen and the Chiswick Bookshop 1935-2001 (New York: The Typophiles, 2002). She went on to produce a documentary about book designers: Abe Lerner: A Life in Books (2003), for the Typophiles which has screened in NY, San Francisco, Providence, and Boston. Her last project was a documentary she produced, directed, and edited about the landmark Boston Harbor Cleanup legal case, featuring interviews with the Late Federal District Judge A. David Mazzone, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and former Governor Michael Dukakis: The Boston Harbor Case: Recollections and Reflections from the Mazzone Archives (The Urban Harbors Institute, 2004). Jenni was also the project archivist for the Mazzone Collection at UMass/Boston.

Jenni has been with the American Comedy Archives since its inception, as researcher, shoot producer, co-Interviewer, and archivist.

Jennifer_Matz@emerson.edu