Jenny Magnus

Jenny Magnus is a Chicago writer, performer, musician, director, and teacher. She is a founding co-artistic director of the Curious Theater Branch. Her plays have been staged at Steppenwolf Theater and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, among other venues. She has taught writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for about two decades and has also taught at Columbia College Chicago. Her collection of performance works, Observations of an Orchestrated Catastrophe, was published by JackLeg Press in 2014 and reprinted in 2021.