Jean Meltzer

Jean Meltzer is a Jewish American author, former producer, writer, director for Tapestry International, and a Daytime Emmy Award winner. In 2006, she left the television industry to study in rabbinical schools and seminars in Jerusalem for five years until she left as a result of myalgic encephalomyelitis. In 2022, the rights to her novel The Matzah Ball have been optioned. Along with Lance Bass Productions and Brett Gursky, it is to be produced by Sugar23.

Early life and education Meltzer was born to an American Jewish family. She grew up keeping kashrut and attending Hebrew schools. Meltzer lives in Virginia.

Career

Television career After graduating from college, Meltzer worked as creative director of Tapestry International. She worked as a producer for several shows including Assignment Discovery which won the 2004 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series. She also directed episodes of the show TLC Elementary School, which she also served as a producer for, and was as a writer for the television film Christmas and the Civil War. In an interview about Jewish representation in her books, she explained that one reason for writing Jewish stories is her niece, saying: “I didn’t have happy Jewish stories growing up and I realized my niece needed these types of stories, so I sat down and wrote a book for her,”.