Jenny Koons

Playwrights debut. Credits: Head Over Heels (Pasadena Playhouse), Hurricane Diane (Huntington Theatre), Now Becomes Then (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Men on Boats (Baltimore Center Stage), Speechless (New Blue Man Group North American Tour), The Tempest (The Juilliard School), Between Us: The Deck of Cards (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Public Theater Mobile Unit), Burn All Night (American Repertory Theatre), Theatre for One: In This Moment (Pershing Square Signature Center), Instant SPKRBOX (SPKRBOX Festival commission, Norway), Bars and Measures (B Street Theatre), Gimme Shelter (Why Not Theatre, Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games commission), Theatre for One: I'm Not the Stranger You Think I Am (Arts Brookfield), A Sucker Emcee (National Black Theatre, LAByrinth Theater Company, SPKRBOX Festival, Norway), Queen of the Night (Diamond Horseshoe Nightclub, Drama Desk Award), The Odyssey Project 2012 (site-specific NYC). She has been an artist in residence at Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and The Invisible Dog Art Center, and has developed new work at Steppenwolf, Roundabout, and New Black Fest, among others. Jenny is a Lilly Award recipient and proud member of the SDC. 

• “Julia Izumi is first-rate talent whose work is funny, insightful, and masterful. I can’t wait to see what she does next.”

  — DC Metro Theater Arts

• “Equal parts chaos and absurdity.”

  — Maya Phillips, The New York Times

• “Izumi’s play is crazy, chaotic, but also cleverly plotted and energetically paced by director Jenny Koons. You’ll be rapt and also occasionally slapped sideways just when you think you’ve settled in. The script is a mold-breaker, a convention-twitter. The only guarantee is hilarity at regular intervals.”

  — Sandy MacDonald, New York Stage Review