Jen is a director/choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY.
PlayMakers: debut.
Off-Broadway: F#%king Up Everything.
New York: Fable (NYMF); The King’s Whore (Walkerspace); Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen] (Ars Nova).
Touring productions: Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Asolo Repertory Theatre).
Regional: Lysistrata (Connecticut Repertory Theatre); The 39 Steps, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Triad Stage); The Hunchback of Seville (Washington Ensemble Theatre); Bubble Boy (American Theater Group); Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls (Theatre Vertigo).
She is a co-founder and former co-artistic director of Studio 42, a New York City-based theatre company that from 2001-15 produced “unproducible” plays by emerging playwrights. Jen recently returned from a stint at Ithaca College, where she directed Naomi Iizuka’s play Anon(ymous) as part of a fellowship from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Guest Artist Initiative. Up next is a new 1980s rock musical about zombies and love, slated for an Off-Broadway run.
Education: BA, Vassar College; MFA, Yale School of Drama.