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Latest comment: 9 days ago by HazelOsullivan99 in topic Edit request: business career and stage credits

entrepreneur?

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Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I don't know beans about Jennifer Dundas but just in terms of improving the article, the article opens by saying she is an entrepreneur and actress, as if those have equal weight in summarizing who she is. Then the rest of the article is 100% about her as an actress. As far as I can tell there's nothing in the article that substantiates the statement that she's an entrepreneur. I think it's a general principle that introductory claims should be substantiated in the detailed sections of an article. Will Patrol Tonight (talk) 20:04, 2 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Edit request: business career and stage credits

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Latest comment: 9 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello. In the interest of transparency, I am Jennifer Dundas, the subject of this article, so I have a conflict of interest and am not editing the article directly. I'd like to request the changes below, each supported by independent published sources. The lead currently describes me as an entrepreneur, but the article contains no information about my business career, so the main request is a new section covering it. I'd be grateful if an uninvolved editor could review, adjust wording as needed, and implement whatever meets the article's standards. Thank you.

Summary of requested changes

  1. Revise the lead to mention the business career summarised later in the article.
  2. Clarify the Early life section (upbringing in the Boston area; family background; Milton Academy) and move the Little Gloria... Happy at Last credit to the career section.
  3. Expand the Film and television paragraph with sourced details of notable roles and co-stars.
  4. Expand the Stage section with sourced credits, and replace the Filmbug citation for the Obie Award with Playbill's list of winners. The Arcadia credit is now cited to IBDB and The New York Times in place of the existing New York magazine citation.
  5. Add a new "Business career" section on Blue Marble Ice Cream, the Inzozi Nziza project in Rwanda, and Domes Dispensary.

Proposed text for each follows.

Proposed text

Lead (replaces current opening paragraph)

Jennifer Dundas (born January 14, 1971), credited as Jennie Dundas in her early work, is an American actress and entrepreneur. She is perhaps best known for her role in The First Wives Club as Chris Paradis, the daughter of Diane Keaton's character. A child actor who made her Broadway debut in Jules Feiffer's Grownups, she went on to a stage career that included Arcadia at Lincoln Center and an Obie Award-winning performance in Peter Hedges's Good as New.[1][2] In 2007 she co-founded Blue Marble Ice Cream, a Brooklyn-based organic ice cream company, which she led as chief executive for about 18 years;[3][4] in 2024 she co-founded Domes Dispensary, a cannabis retailer in Kingston, New York.[5][4]

Early life (replaces current early-life paragraph)

== Early life and education == Dundas was born in Boston and grew up in a suburb of the city.[6] She is a granddaughter of the explorer, mountaineer and photographer Bradford Washburn and the mountaineer Barbara Washburn, the first woman to climb Denali; Dundas has cited her grandmother as an inspiration in starting her business.[3] Through her father, she is a member of the Dundas family headed by the Marquess of Zetland.[7] She was discovered at age nine by playwright Jules Feiffer, who saw her perform in a play at a summer camp.[8] She graduated from Milton Academy in 1989[9] and attended Brown University.[citation needed] (Note for reviewing editor: the current text states she was discovered "in her hometown of Boston"; the summer-camp detail is from the existing Chicago Tribune citation.)

Film and television (replaces current paragraph beginning "Films in which Dundas has appeared")

=== Film and television === Dundas made her screen debut as the young Gloria Vanderbilt in the 1982 television film Little Gloria... Happy at Last, alongside Angela Lansbury and Maureen Stapleton.[8] Her early film roles often cast her as a daughter: she played Beau Bridges's daughter in Tony Richardson's The Hotel New Hampshire (1984), alongside Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe; Robert Redford's in Legal Eagles (1986); and Diane Keaton's twice, in Mrs. Soffel (1984) and The First Wives Club (1996).[6] Her other films include Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Changing Lanes (2002) and Puccini for Beginners (2006), and she has guest-starred on television series including Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Desperate Housewives. In 2017 she appeared in Steven Spielberg's The Post as Liz Hylton, assistant to Katharine Graham, played by Meryl Streep,[10] and in 2018 she played Mary Jo White in the miniseries The Looming Tower.

Stage (replaces current stage paragraph)

=== Stage === Dundas made her Broadway debut as a child in Jules Feiffer's Grownups at the Lyceum Theatre, and later appeared on Broadway in Ah, Wilderness!.[2] In 1995 she played Thomasina Coverly in the Lincoln Center production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia opposite Billy Crudup.[2][6] In early 1997 she originated the role of Maggie, a 16-year-old who confronts her mother about her cosmetic surgery, in Peter Hedges's Good as New at the Manhattan Class Company,[11] for which she received an Obie Award for performance.[1] She left that production to join the Lincoln Center revival of The Little Foxes with Stockard Channing.[12]

In 1998 she played Lulu in the American premiere of Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking at New York Theatre Workshop, with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Justin Theroux.[13][14][15] Her other New York credits include The Winter's Tale and As You Like It for the Public Theater, and Further Than the Furthest Thing at Manhattan Theatre Club.[16][15] In 2004 she played Laura opposite Sally Field's Amanda in Gregory Mosher's production of The Glass Menagerie at the Kennedy Center.[8][17] The same year she played the playwright Anne Washburn in Washburn's documentary-style play The Ladies, produced by The Civilians at Dixon Place and the Cherry Lane Theatre.[18][19] (Note for reviewing editor: The subject reports that she is Anne Washburn's second cousin; no published source for this has been located.) In 2008 she appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Crimes of the Heart, directed by Kathleen Turner, with Sarah Paulson and Lily Rabe, which transferred from the Williamstown Theatre Festival.[6][3] (Note for reviewing editor: American Theatre magazine reportedly named Dundas one of its "New Faces of the Year" in 1996; a primary source for this has not yet been located.)

NEW SECTION: Business career

== Business career == === Blue Marble Ice Cream === In April 2007 Dundas and her friend Alexis Gallivan, who had worked in international development, founded Blue Marble Ice Cream, and in October of that year opened their first shop in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, followed by a second in Prospect Heights.[20][6] Dundas has said she had no prior interest in business, but saw a gap in the market for ice cream that was both high quality and responsibly produced.[10] She took a hiatus from acting to run the company as its chief executive.[3][9]

Blue Marble became known as New York City's only certified organic ice cream company.[3][9] In 2009 it won Best New Ice Cream in Time Out New York's Readers' Choice awards, and in 2012 Food & Wine named it among the 25 best ice creams in the United States.[21] (Note for reviewing editor: original Time Out New York (2009) and Food & Wine (2012) sources would strengthen this; not yet located online.) Its products were served at the US Open and on Governors Island,[20] and it produced mini cups for JetBlue's premium "Mint" cabin.[3][9] The company later opened its own production facility in Industry City in Sunset Park.[10] In 2021, choosing to self-fund rather than take outside investment, Blue Marble opened a shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side; The New York Times profiled the company as an example of the independent producers that had driven innovation in artisan ice cream.[6] Blue Marble later became part of the portfolio of the Picnic Group, a consumer-brand investment company.[22] (Note for reviewing editor: The subject reports that Picnic Group acquired a majority stake in 2025. No independent coverage of the transaction has yet been located; the Picnic Group website supports only that Blue Marble is among its brands. A press release or trade-press report would allow the date and terms to be added.)

=== Inzozi Nziza === In 2009, at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Dundas met Rwandan playwright Odile "Kiki" Katese, founder of the women's drumming troupe Ingoma Nshya, whose members included women from both sides of the Rwandan genocide. Katese proposed opening an ice cream shop in Rwanda and asked Blue Marble for help; after an exploratory visit, Dundas and Gallivan agreed.[23] The shop, Inzozi Nziza ("Sweet Dreams") in Butare, was described as Rwanda's first ice cream shop, and was run as a cooperative by members of the troupe.[24][25] Dundas and Gallivan established the nonprofit Blue Marble Dreams to support the project.[21] Inzozi Nziza opened in 2012 and became independently run by local women; Blue Marble Dreams later worked on a similar shop in Haiti, Bèl Rèv, with KOFAVIV, an organization supporting survivors of sexual violence.[21]

The project is the subject of the 2012 documentary Sweet Dreams, directed by Lisa and Rob Fruchtman, which was broadcast on Al Jazeera English's Witness strand and screened at United Nations Headquarters in April 2012 as part of the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda, followed by a discussion that included Dundas.[23][26]

=== Domes Dispensary === In 2024 Dundas and her husband, David Tivnan, co-founded Domes Dispensary, a licensed adult-use cannabis retailer in the Town of Ulster near Kingston.[4] In June 2024 Dundas, as principal of Sage Holdco, Inc., applied to the Town of Ulster Planning Board for site-plan approval to open the dispensary, then proposed under the name Sage Cannabis, in a pair of geodesic domes at 268 Forest Hill Drive.[5] The store opened on November 27, 2024,[27] and focuses on products from New York cannabis farms.[4][27] Dundas is the company's chief executive.[28]

Filmography additions (for editor to verify) (Note for reviewing editor: some sources list Capote (2005) among Dundas's film credits (LA Theatre Works bio); role and verification needed before adding to the Film table.)

Thank you for considering these changes. ~~~~

References

  1. 1 2 "OBIE Awards Honor Best of 1996-97 Off-B'way". Playbill. 1997. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 Jennifer Dundas at the Internet Broadway Database
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ifeanyi, Kc (October 23, 2014). "Meet The Actress Who Chucked A Successful Career To Start An Organic Ice-Cream Company". Fast Company. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "About". Domes Dispensary. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Town of Ulster officials discuss two proposed cannabis dispensaries". Hudson Valley One. June 17, 2024. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Howe, Ben Ryder (August 13, 2021). "The Cutthroat World of $10 Ice Cream". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  7. ↑ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). "Zetland". Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Vol. 3 (107th ed.). pp. 4284–4285.
  8. 1 2 3 Kilian, Michael (August 5, 2004). "Enlightening: Jennifer Dundas in 'Menagerie'". Chicago Tribune. Section 5, p. 8. Retrieved October 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Taking Risks and Keeping Cool, Jennie Dundas '89". Milton Magazine. Milton Academy. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  10. 1 2 3 "Actor Jennie Dundas takes on real-life role of ice cream maker". CBS News. December 10, 2019. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  11. ↑ "Mercedes Ruehl to Be Good As New at MCC". Playbill. 1997. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  12. ↑ "Chelsea Altman Joins Extended Good As New". Playbill. 1997. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  13. ↑ "NYTW's Shopping And... Opens Feb. 2". Playbill. 1998. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  14. ↑ "Shopping and Fucking". New York Theatre Workshop. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  15. 1 2 "Jennifer Dundas". L.A. Theatre Works. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  16. ↑ "Further Thoughts". TheaterMania. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  17. ↑ "The Glass Menagerie (review)". Metro Weekly. 2004. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  18. ↑ "The Ladies". The Civilians. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  19. ↑ "Off-Broadway play explores infamous historical women". AM New York. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  20. 1 2 "Blue Marble Ice Cream". Blue Marble Dreams. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  21. 1 2 3 Monaco, Emily (April 14, 2015). "How Blue Marble Ice Cream Is Making Saving the World A Little Tastier". Epicure & Culture. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  22. ↑ "The Picnic Group". The Picnic Group. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  23. 1 2 "Sweet Dreams". Witness. Al Jazeera English. October 31, 2010. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  24. ↑ "Sweet Dreams: A Documentary Film about Women Healing Rwanda". Teachers College, Columbia University. 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  25. ↑ Stein, Sophia. "Sweet Dreams: Rwanda, Ice Cream, Drumming, Genocide". Cultural Daily. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  26. ↑ "Sweet Dreams: Film Screening (programme)" (PDF). United Nations. April 12, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  27. 1 2 "Straight to the Domes: Domes Dispensary in Kingston". Chronogram. May 2025. Retrieved September 23, 2026.
  28. ↑ "Kingston Crown 2026 Recap". Domes Dispensary. April 2026. Retrieved September 23, 2026.

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