Artist Profile
Jenny Jacobs (she/her) is delighted to be working with Chance again! Jenny is a theatre artist and educator. Jenny’s theatrical work includes dramaturging, choreographing, and directing classic and contemporary musicals, plays, new works, and devised pieces; performing in ensemble and solo productions; leadership roles at regional and educational arts institutions in the LA, Orange, and Philadelphia areas; and lecturing and consulting for colleges and universities on the East and West Coasts. Jenny earned her Educational Doctorate with a dissertation about the value of the performing arts in education in 2019, and created a new translation of Moliere’s Tartuffe which premiered at Chapman University in 2021. Jenny is a proud new full-time faculty member of the Irvine Valley College Theatre Arts Department. All of Jenny’s work is connected to her personal mission to deepen appreciation for and connections to the performing arts. http://www.jennyjacobs.net.
