Jenny Magnus
Chicago, IL
Interdisciplinary Art
Jenny Magnus is a writer, performer, composer, musician, director, and teacher who is a founding co-Artistic Director of the Curious Theater Branch, an all-original theater company, now in its’ 35th year. She is the author/creator of plays that have been produced at Steppenwolf Theater, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Atheneum Theater, Prop Thtr, and on tour throughout America and Europe. She has been teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level for 25 years, at Columbia College Chicago, The School of the Art Institute, University of Illinois, University of Chicago, and has an MFA in Writing from The School of the Art Institute. She is sole proprietor of Jenny Magnus Creative Consulting, a facilitation/mentoring/consultation business. Her collection of performative work, Observations of an Orchestrated Catastrophe: 9 Plays and Performances, was published in 2014 by JackLeg Press, and was reprinted in 2021.