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Jenn Kidwell

By rebecca.calkin@woollymammoth.net

Jenn Kidwell’s work questions our way of being with sharp intelligence and wry humor. With Scott Sheppard, Kidwell wrote and performed Obie Award winning Underground Railroad Game. Recent projects include Those With 2 Clocks, Eternal Life: Part One, and Fat Ham (film) at The Wilma Theater, Ocean Filibuster (PearlDamour), Syllabus for Black Love (Jaamil Olawole Kosoko), Home (Geoff Sobelle), Adrienne Truscott’s Still Asking for It (Joe’s Pub). Published in movement research Performance Journal #45 and hyperallergic.com. 2013 TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship, 2015 Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant, 2016 Pew Fellow, 2017 Independence Fellow, 2020 Ruthie Award & Hodder Fund Grant, 2023 FCA grantee.

Photo: courtesy of IW Douglas