Jenny Jacobs

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.

Productions at Chance Theater

Production Date Role
Such Small Hands February 2025 Dramaturg
Boat Show: OTR New Play Reading October 2024 Dramaturg
Tenderness and Gratitude Number Four: OTR New Play Reading August 2024 Dramaturg
Call Your Mother: OTR New Play Reading April 2024 Dramaturg
Lipstick Lobotomy: OTR New Play Reading February 2024 Dramaturg
Such Small Hands: OTR Reading October 2023 Dramaturg
The Bed Trick: OTR Staged Reading August 2023 Dramaturg
Matinicus: The Story of Abigail Burgess May 2023 Dramaturg
Cheese, The Musical: OTR Reading April 2023 Dramaturg
Exotic Deadly, or The MSG Play: OTR Staged Reading February 2023 Dramaturg
Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas (2022) December 2022 Mother
A Thousand Maids: OTR Reading October 2022 Dramaturg
We Ain’t Ever Gonna Break Up – The Hymon & Parfunkel Story: OTR Workshop Production August 2022 Dramaturg
HONGO: OTR Reading August 2022 Dramaturg
Matinicus – A Lighthouse Play: OTR Reading June 2022 Dramaturg
Crimson Lit – Scarlet Letter Setlist: OTR Staged Reading October 2021 Dramaturg
Shooter!: OTR Staged Reading August 2021 Dramaturg