Biography
Jennifer Hubbard contributes to the THEA department as an Adjunct specializing in The Viewpoints and Composition work for the theatre. She occasionally serves as guest artist in directing and performance classes.
Jennifer Hubbard is a professional theatre director, performer, and educator, as well as an audiobook narrator with the Talking Books program for the National Library Service/Library of Congress. During twelve years of creative association with the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Jennifer directed for the Humana Festival of New American Plays as well as performing premiere works by Tony Kushner, John Glore, and Jane Anderson. She served as ATL's Director of the professional Apprentice/Intern program, producing and directing A/I Company seasons on the mainstage, developing season-long training and traveling annually on a nationwide recruitment/audition tour.
A former nominee for the TCG Alan Schneider Award for Directing, additional credits include The First 42 Festival of Singapore, the world premiere of D.M. Feldman's Orson featuring Tim Gregory, the Chicago premiere of Murphy Guyer's Eden Court, Karen Zacarias' Legacy of Light , Joan Ackermann's Off the Map, Heather McDonald's Dream of a Common Language, Rebecca Gilman's Spinning Into Butter, David Mamet's Boston Marriage, John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt, as well as a trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a production of her original theatre piece Embracing the Riddle: Travels with Pilgrim.
Jennifer created River of Life, a public theatre event on the streets of downtown Louisville, and served as the actor/consultant for the National Constitution Center's theatre presentation installation in Philadelphia. She directed Louisville's inaugural production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues for the V-Day Worldwide Campaign.
As a performer, Jennifer received a Joseph Jefferson nomination for Outstanding Performance in the Chicago Econo-Art production of Christopher Durang's Titanic as well as a Shammy Award for Outstanding Performance of the Year for her role in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive at the Hippodrome Theatre in Florida. She performed in Anne Bogart's production of The Adding Machine for the Modern Masters Festival at ATL, A Christmas Carol at the Goodman Theatre, and Emily Mann's Still Life at the Great Plains Theatre Festival.
After studying extensively with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company and having been trained and sanctioned to teach Viewpoints and Composition by Ms. Bogart, Jennifer has been a guest artist for theatre companies, training programs, and colleges and universities around the country.
Degrees
B.A., Theatre Arts Virginia Tech 1980