Jackson Gay
Director
Jackson’s upcoming projects include the new musical Hard Road to Heaven with a book by Willy Holtzman, and music and lyrics by Marty Dodson, David Spangler, and Jerry Taylor. Recent work includes Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home (World Premiere co-production Goodman Theatre and Berkeley Rep); The Mousetrap (Hartford Stage); Wait Until Dark (Dorset Theatre Festival); Endless Loop of Gratitude with New
Neighborhood (New Ohio’s Ice Factory); Lucy Thurber’s Transfers for Audible, MCC, and New York Stage & Film (Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award); Lover Beloved with Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik (Alley Theatre); Kleptocracy by Kenneth Lin (Arena Stage);
These Paper Bullets! by Rolin Jones with music by Billie Joe Armstrong (New Neighborhood, Atlantic, Geffen, YaleRep – Critics Pick Time Out NY, Best Production and Adaptation Los Angeles Sage Awards, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Best Production and Best Director).
Chekhov’s Three Sisters (Studio / New Neighborhood); A Little Journey by Rachel Crothers (Mint – Drama Desk nomination Outstanding Revival of a Play); Jones’ The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic and Yale Rep, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Outstanding Production of a Play). Jackson is the Co-Producing Artistic Director of New Neighborhood https://www.newneighborhood.net and currently teaches directing at Brooklyn College. MFA
Directing Yale School of Drama.