Jenny McConnell Frederick is the co-Artistic Director of Rorschach Theatre and with Randy Baker founded the company in the summer of 1999.
For Rorschach she has directed THIS STORM IS WHAT WE CALL PROGRESS, ROUGH MAGIC, THE ARABIAN NIGHT, THE SCARLET LETTER, MASTER AND MARGARITA, A CLEARING IN THE WOODS, THE ILLUSION and the Helen Hayes nominated GOD OF VENGEANCE. She has also directed at the Source Theatre Festival and at Virginia Commonwealth University. This summer she will direct Sheila Callaghan's DEAD CITY.
Jenny has produced dozens of plays, readings and special events for Rorschach Theatre. She's a member of the Cultural Development Corporation's Mead Theater Lab Advisory Panel and The Hub Theatre's Advisory Board. She produced Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's Size Matters reading series for three seasons as well as the theatre component of 2003's Art-O-Matic. Jenny was a nominee for the Women's Information Network's Young Women of Acheivement Award in 2001.
Jenny grew up in Northern Virginia and graduated cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Theatre. She is married to sound designer Matthew Frederick and is currently the Producer for Cultural Development Corporation's Source Festival and Mead Theatre Lab Program.
For Jenny's profile on the RORSCHACH THEATRE BLOG,
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For the WASHINGTON POST feature article on RORSCHACH THEATRE, THEATER ALLIANCE and CATALYST THEATER,
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