JACKSON GAY
Upcoming: August: Osage County (Alley Theatre), workshop of David Adjmi’s 3C (Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb), A Little Journey (The Mint) Recent: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (People’s Light); Kenneth Lin’s Intelligence-Slave (Alley Theatre); Jennifer Maisel’s Out of Orbit (2010 Sundance Theater Institute at Mass MoCA); Raising Jo, by Charlotte Miller (PlayPenn 2010); Fabulation, by Lynn Nottage, Baltimore Centerstage; Made In Poland, The Play Company; Lucy Thurber’s Scarcity (Atlantic Theater Company) where she previously directed Kia Corthron’s Master Disaster and Rolin Jones’ The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, which was selected as a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist; Workshop presentations of David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette for the Goodman Theater, Sundance in Residence at the Public Theater, and the JAW/West Festival; A collaboration with Jennifer Tipton for the Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process series- selected scenes from Glass Menagerie; Jason Grote's Box Americana (2008 Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Conference); Len, Asleep in Vinyl, by Carly Mensch, Second Stage Uptown and Juilliard; 10 Things To Do Before I Die, by Zakiyyah Alexander (Second Stage Uptown); Best Production Connecticut Critic’s Award The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at the Yale Rep. Currently on faculty at New York Film Academy and Primary Stages ESPA. Producer with Yarn Films and founder of the film company Dear Jane and Friends. Jackson is the recipient of the Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship at Manhattan Theatre Club, the Williamstown Theater Festival Directing Fellowship and the Drama League's New Directors/New Works Fellowship. 2008 University of the Arts Silver Star Distinguished Alumni Award. MFA Directing Yale School of Drama.