Jill is best known for her score and songs on Todd Solondz’s Sundance winner "Welcome to the Dollhouse". She co-starred in Solondz’s first feature film “Fear, Anxiety & Depression” as his pill-popping girlfriend, Sharon.

As a musician, she toured Europe, the States and Canada as bassist for Johnny Thunders in “The Oddballs”, is a producer on the upcoming “Looking for Johnny” documentary about Thunders by Spanish filmmaker Daniel Garcia, and continues to perform with groups. She played lead guitar in Steppin’ Razor, the all-girl reggae group, moonlightied as a bassist in the tri-state country cover band, the New York Frets, and formed The Con Artists, a three-piece rock band which played in New York clubs.

A writer with screenplays optioned, she also script doctors, most notably revising the critically acclaimed “Until the Night”, Greg Hatanaka’s debut feature, that made it possible to bring in such stars as Norman Reedus and Sean Young.

Her foray into documentary filmmaking resulted in “The Day After”, produced with Harris Salomon, and was featured in an NYWIFT screening series, “Life in the Aftermath of 9/11” at Film Anthology Archives. Today, it’s accessible through the memorial library collection of the USS New York, built with the steel from the World Trade Center, and is in the archives of the Tribute WTC Visitor Center.

Born in Far Rockaway, Queens, her first two years were spent in the Bronx  before her dad joined the army and moved the family to Frankfurt, Germany. Then, a move to Florida before settling on Long Island (her escape from suburbia is, of course, someone else’s movie)...She is a graduate of Bennington College, with a term at the National Theater Institute, with a B.A. in theater, and went onto further training at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Early studies in music composition were with a select group in the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division. She gratefully acknowledges studies at Film/Video Arts under director Vlad Nickolic and cinematographer Horacio Marquinez that made possible her transition to film directing.

A longtime resident of Greenwich Village, she continues to create works inspired by her neighborhood, most recently completing a debut fictional novel and its sequel.

Creating Karma is the lucky result of finding a kindred character actress interested in working on a screenplay. Carol Lee Sirugo and she were on a craft services break while portraying homeless derelects as “extras” on a film set in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The film was “Marci X”, a Richard Benjamin feature film that went straight to DVD.