Jenna is a New York-based Director, Writer, Dramaturg and Arts Activist, with a focus on new American plays and screenplays. She recently directed the critically-acclaimed world premier of At The Wedding by Bryna Turner for Lincoln Center Theater (NY Times Critic’s Pick), starring Mary Wiseman (Lucille Lortel nomination). As well as: Arrowhead by Catya McMullen for IAMA Theater, Superstitions by Emily Zemba for The Pool Plays, and the world premier of The Siblings Play by Ren Dara Santiago for Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Select directing credits include: Summer’s Soldier by Boo Killebrew for Williamstown Theatre Festival, featuring a cast of over100 local community members; The Climb by C.A. Johnson for Cherry Lane Theatre; AGNES by Catya McMullen for Lesser America at 59E59 Theaters (NY Times Critic’s Pick); Amy Herzog's Belleville for Pasadena Playhouse, starring Anna Camp & Thomas Sadoski (Ovation Award nomination); Street Children by Pia Scala-Zankel for Vertigo Theatre (NY Times Critic’s Pick); The First Immigrant by Martyna Majok (Williamstown); as well as Thornton Wilder’s Our Town for the 2019 Pride Plays Festival (featuring an entirely Queer and TGNC ensemble). Jenna is the Co-founder of New Roots, a residency program for LGBTQIA+2s artists at Walhalla Farm in upstate New York, as well as the Co-creator of The Homebound Project in partnership with No Kid Hungry, an initiative that raised money to help feed children and families affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Jenna was a 2018 National Directing Fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, as well as the 2017 Drama League & Boris Sagal Directing Fellow at Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she co-conceived and directed Blue Ridge. BROADWAY: The Parisian Woman by Beau Willimon, starring Uma Thurman (Associate Director to Pam MacKinnon); The Tony-nominated revival of The Heidi Chronicles starring Elizabeth Moss (Associate Director to Pam MacKinnon); Picnic (SDC Foundation Fellow, assistant to Sam Gold). Select OFF-BROADWAY/ REGIONAL: Carlo at the Wedding by Bryna Turner (ACT); Wonder Boi by Jacob Jarrett (NYMF); Dear by Lily Houghton (MCC); Gun Country (Houses on the Moon Theater, A.R.T/New York); Have You Been There by Emily Zemba (Williamstown); East Coast Curriculum by Lucy Thurber (Lee Strasberg Institute); Invincible Ones by Samantha Cooper (Signature Center/Columbia MFA); Balm in Gilead by Lanford Wilson (Lee Strasberg Institute); Here to Be Seen (featuring a cast of formerly incarcerated artists, commissioned by the Brooklyn District Attorney); Kids by Daniel Talbott (IRT); The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler for Taconic Correctional Facility & Cherry Lane Theatre (a benefit production for the Women's Prison Association); and Spring Awakening (Lime Kiln Theater). Jenna has directed several productions for Rattlestick Theater as the founding Artistic Director of The Middle Voice Theater Company. She has developed new work at such theaters as The Public, American Conservatory Theater (ACT), Yale Repertory, the O’Neill Theater Center (NPC), Pasadena Playhouse, LCT3, The Women’s Project, Labyrinth Theater, Playmakers Repertory, The Drama League, MCC, Primary Stages, MTC, Second Stage, Ensemble Studio Theater (EST), The Lark, The Actors Studio, among many others. Jenna’s play Game was developed by INTAR and Rattlestick Theater, and her new play The Fifth was developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm. She has been awarded a Jonathan Alper Fellowship (MTC), a Drama League Directing Fellowship, and two SDC Foundation Observerships. Jenna was the Co-founder of Creative Solutions, a residency program at SPACE on Ryder Farm for social justice organizations and human rights advocates. She is a member the LILLY Awards Power Network, the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and an Affiliated Artist of New Georges. A proud member of SDC, Jenna is represented by Emma Feiwel at WME.
