JVP-NYC Series: Conversations with Movement Elders: Jenny Romaine
In conversation with JVP-NYC member Una Osato
Please join us tomorrow for our continuing Conversations with Movement Elders series, featuring Jenny Romaine!
WHEN: Wednesday, July 8th | 4-5:30pm ET / 1-2:30pm PT
To join by computer: https://zoom.us/j/91728262013
To join by phone: 1-646-876-9923, 917 2826 2013#
DESCRIPTION
Jenny Romaine is a director, designer, performer, and puppeteer, and a founding member of Great Small Works artists’ collective. She is the music director of Jennifer Miller’s OBIE and Bessie Award-winning CIRCUS AMOK and artist in residence at Milk Not Jails. Romaine was a sound archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research for thirteen years, and for several decades has drawn on Yiddish primary source materials to create art that has contemporary meaning.
Jenny's projects include the Sukkos Mob, and community Purim Shpiln with the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee. Romaine founded the Youth Theater Workshop at KlezKamp and her productions at KlezKanada from 2010 to 2017 have included the Backwards March, the Haunted Suke, Truth in Gay Clothes: the Musar Musical, Ellstein on the Beach, and Nekhame Epshteyn: Chicken Park. In 2016, Romaine directed “Bobe Mayses: Yiddish Knights and Other Impossibilities” with author Michael Wex and Music Director Alan Bern. Romaine was the first recipient of the Adrienne Cooper Award for Dreaming in Yiddish in 2014 and was recently featured in Ezra Nepon’s book “Dazzle Camouflage: Spectacular Theatrical Strategies for Resistance and Resilience.”