JACQUELINE
PEREDA

Jacqueline Pereda is a comedy writer with Cuban roots who is passionate about storytelling that comments on the culture and our universal struggle with identity.

 

After graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in Journalism and Media Studies, she moved to NYC to pursue her career in comedy. Jacqueline wrote, directed, produced and starred in the pilot, GENERATION POR QUÉ? currently streaming on HBO Max. HBO Latino acquired the program after a successful festival run, and was an official selection for SeriesFest, where she was awarded Best Actress and the recipient of the Caz Matthews Fund - a fund supporting filmmakers who are committed to dispelling stereotypes. Additionally, it was an official selection for the Women In Comedy Festival and the LA Comedy Festival. 

 

She is an alum of the UCB sketch program and was a semifinalist for the Sundance New Voices Lab in 2017. With Hypokrit Theater Company, her full-length play, A Visitor's Pass on the Virgin Mary, was a Finalist for the 2020 Screencraft Play competition and was awarded the 2019 Residency at New York's Governor Island. Most recently, Jacqueline was the Story Editor on Spotify’s first scripted bilingual comedy, La Cabina Telefonica for LATAM Originals, where she was nominated for a 2023 Webby Award for Best Scripted Fiction podcast.   

 

Her work has also appeared on TruTV, Funny or Die, Mas Mejor, and WhoHaha. She has also  written and produced over 20 comedic shorts on her YouTube channel. In her free time she loves to dance and write bios about herself in the third person.