BIOGRAPHY
Jenny Koons
Recent projects: A Sucker Emcee, National Black Theatre; Airness, Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville; What Are You Doing Here? (by Charles Fuller), Golden State Freeway (by John Guare), My Anniversary (by David Henry Hwang), Deja Vu and This Moment After (by Regina Taylor), Barrel Wave (Naomi Wallace), Theatre for One (World Premieres); The Blueprint, NYU Graduate Acting; K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Huntington Summer Workshop; {my lingerie play}, Joe’s Pub; Runaways, New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center; Instant SPKRBOX, SPKRBOX Festival commission, Norway; Bars and Measures (World Premiere), National New Play Network; Gimme Shelter, Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games commission; Abyme, Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, Dixon Place; A Sucker Emcee, LAByrinth Theater, SPKRBOX Festival, Verkstedhallen, Dramatikkens Hus; Queen of the Night (Associate/ Resident Director, 2014 Drama Desk Award); The Odyssey Project, Dixon Place, Site-speci c across NYC. Jenny is curator of the New York City Center's Encores! O -Center Lobby Project, co-curator of the 2016 Toronto ThisGen Conference, and co-founder of Artists 4 Change NYC (National Black Theatre). She is on the steering committee for The Ghostlight Project, serves on the advisory board for UK-based Artistic Directors of the Future, and is a member of New York City Center’s Artists' Board.