Jenny’s work is Feminist, Political, Timely.
Jenny is an Austin-based director, producer, educator, and performer who champions new works and delights in creating 'underrepresented conversations' - y'know, the ones people avoid at dinner parties. Jenny creates physically adventurous, character-forward work that tends to be feminist, political, and timely.
She is the Founding Producing Artistic Director of Austin's Theatre en Bloc and has most recently served as the Theatre Education Director of Austin Jewish Repertory Theatre, the Programming Director of the Austin Creative Alliance, and a teacher in the public school system, specializing in early childhood, special education K-12, and theatre.
Select directing credits include: ROE (Zach); Merrily We Roll Along (San Antonio Public Theatre); Ride the Cyclone, elizabeth is going into the ground, In Sisters We Trust, of My F*cked Up American Girl Doll Play, Red Bike (UT Austin); Junie B Jones, Toothless Wonder (Magik Theatre); Dance Nation, Severe Weather Warning, The Secretary, Neva, Until the Flood, The Drowning Girls, The Totalitarians, Bright Half Life, World of Wee, Austin is a Place: You Are Here, Violet Crown: Dog's Town, Violet Crown: Salamander Down (Theatre en Bloc); Fly Girl (Color Arc Productions) Incident at Willow Creek, Backstory (San Antonio Public Theatre); A Handful of Minutes, Circle of Five, Look Back.. (Hyde Park Theatre); The Dead Giveaway (Final Acts Project); Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory , Into the Woods, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (HCCT); and Art (Preas Theatre).
Jenny holds a Directing + Acting BFA from NYU, an M.Ed. from the Boston Teacher Residency / UMass, an Executive Strategy for Non-Profit Management Certification from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA in Directing from UT Austin. Jenny is an SDC Associate member. She is the current Coordinator for the Student Jane Chambers Playwriting Contest, culminating at ATHE and sits on the Women in Theatre Program Executive Committee.
Upcoming Projects include: Pretend It's Pretend at UT New Theatre Festival; Into the Woods at Saint Edward's University; and Presenting at Planet Texas 2050 Symposium.