Jenny Bennett

Biography
Jenny Bennett is proud to be a fourth-generation Theatre Woman, whose multiple disciplines in the arts include directing, acting, playwrighting, and producing. For seven years, she worked in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where she created a theatre company that produced a full season of plays, comedy improv and extreme theatre weekends with the collaboration of playwrights, directors and actors from several countries. She also directed an award-winning annual Theatre Project that trained English through Theatre practice for Shu-Te University. Since returning to NYC, she's been acting in projects like CTH's award- winning play Emancipation and the world premiere of Chuck Mee's Coney Island Avenue. Jenny also piloted the TACT Academy for The Actors Company Theatre. Directing credits include Macbeth, Dangerous Liaisons/ Weixian Guanxi, Romeo & Juliet, Into the Woods, Godspell, Arcadia, The Lady's Not For Burning, As You Like It!, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The 3Penny Opera. Jenny has an MFA from the PTTP at the University of Delaware.


