Jenny Magnus is a writer, performer, composer, musician, director, and teacher who is a founding co-Artistic Director of the Curious Theater Branch, an all-original theater company, now in its’ 35th year. She is the author/creator of plays/performances that have been produced at Steppenwolf Theater, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Atheneum Theater, Prop Thtr, and on tour throughout America and Europe. She is a longtime member of the weird-ass band The Crooked Mouth. Magnus has released 17 albums over all the years and bands, including solo recordings, recordings with The Crooked Mouth and Maestro Subgum and the Whole. Her collection of performative work, Observations of an Orchestrated Catastrophe: 9 Plays and Performances, was published in 2014 by JackLeg Press, and is being reprinted in 2021. She has been teaching at the graduate and undergraduate level for 25 years at many institutions around Chicago, and has an MFA in Writing from The School of the Art Institute.
She is sole proprietor of Jenny Magnus Creative Consulting, a facilitation/mentoring/consultation business.
