Jackson Gay

Jackson, in collaboration with New Neighborhood, Dan Butler and DMNDR, recently produced the first 24-hour reading presentation of the Mueller Report in NYC (*honored with two thumbs down from Breitbart News).

Jackson’s directing work includes: Wendy MacLeod’s Slow Food (Dorset Theatre); Power of Sail by Paul Grellong (Warehouse Theatre); Chekhov’s The Seagull (Juilliard); Kleptocracy by Kenneth Lin (Arena Stage); Woman In Mind by Alan Ayckbourn and August: Osage County (REP); Transfers by Lucy Thurber (New York Stage & Film and MCC, Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award); Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home (Ground Floor Berkeley Rep); Lover Beloved by Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik (Alley Theatre); Mat Smart’s Kill Local (La Jolla Playhouse); Chekhov’s Three Sisters (Studio Theatre / New Neighborhood); Shakespeare’s Much Ado adapted with Ken Lin (Cal Shakes); These Paper Bullets! by Rolin Jones with music by Billie Joe Armstrong (New Neighborhood, Atlantic, Geffen, Yale Rep - Critics Pick Time Out NY, Best Production and Adaptation LA Sage Awards, Time Out Los Angeles, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Best Production and Best Director); 3C by David Adjmi and Thurber’s Where We’re Born (Rattlestick); Elevada by Sheila Callaghan (Yale Rep); Thurber’s The Insurgents (Labyrinth Theatre Company); Thurber’s Scarcity and Jones’ The Jammer (Atlantic); A Little Journey by Rachel Crothers (Mint - Drama Desk nomination Outstanding Revival of a Play); Jones’ The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic and Yale Rep, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Outstanding Production of a Play).

Jackson’s upcoming projects include: Lucy Thurber’s Transfers for Audible; the new musical Sabina by Willy Holtzman, Louise Beach and Darrah Cloud (Portland Stage); Yale School of Drama Second Year Project (Yale University); Partnership by Elizabeth Baker (Mint Theater Company). Teaching: Williams, Yale, New School, Columbia, Fordham. MFA Directing Yale School of Drama. BFA Acting University of the Arts.