Jenny Magnus is an interdisciplinary artist who brings composition, intention, rhythm, dynamics, and inventiveness to every form of making she encounters. She is a founding co-Artistic Director of the Curious Theater Branch, an all-original theater company now entering its 25th year, author/creator of plays that have been produced at Steppenwolf Theater, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, at the former Lunar Cabaret, the Prop Thtr and on tour throughout America and Europe. She has performed in many solo performances as well. She is currently a member of the brechtsy/folksy band The Crooked Mouth, currently at work on their second album, available on UvuLittle Records. She is also a long-time Adjunct Faculty member at both Columbia College Chicago, in the graduate Interdisciplinary Arts Department and the undergraduate Interactive Arts and Media Department, and in the Writing Program of The School of The Art Institute. Her collection of plays and performances, Observations of an Orchestrated Catastrophe, is available on JackLeg Press. Jennymagnus.com
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