Artist Profile
Jessica Kubzansky is the Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena, a theatre dedicated to risky, adventurous new works as well as significantly re-envisioned classics. She is also an award-winning director working nationally in theatres such as Arena Stage, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Cherry Lane, Utah Shakespeare Festival, A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Portland Center Stage, South Coast Repertory Theatre, The Pasadena Playhouse, The Geffen Theatre, and many more. Kubzansky has had the privilege of working with the wonderful Keiko Green in a variety of capacities and is thrilled to be together again. Recent work at Boston Court includes Tennesse Williams’ The Night of the Iguana, world premieres of Tira Palmquist’s The Body’s Midnight, Kubzansky’s own immersive Measure STILL for Measure, Kit Steinkellner’s Ladies, Stefanie Zadravec’s Colony Collapse, Sarah Mantell’s Everything That Never Happened, Sheila Callaghan’s Everything You Touch (also for Rattlestick at The Cherry Lane), Luis Alfaro’s Mojada, A Medea in Los Angeles (The Getty Villa). Recently at other theatres: Sarah Mantell’s Everything That Never Happened (Baltimore Center Stage), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Utah Shakespeare Festival), The Father with Alfred Molina (Pasadena Playhouse), Othello with Wayne T. Carr at A Noise Within, Jeanne Sakata’s Hold These Truths (Arena Stage), Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Orange (South Coast Rep), Stupid F*cking Bird (ACT, Seattle), and Hamlet with Leo Marks (Theater 150). Kubzansky received the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle’s Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatre.