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Jennifer Kiger, associate artistic director
Jennifer
Kiger joined the Yale Repertory Theatre staff in 2005
as Associate Artistic Director and director of the theatre’s commissioning
and new play development programs.
Ms. Kiger came to Yale Rep from South Coast Repertory, where she was Literary Manager from 2000-2005 and served as Co-Director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. She was dramaturg on over 40 new plays at SCR, including the world premieres of Rolin Jones’ The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Amy Freed’s The Beard of Avon, and the west coast premieres of Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House and Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics. Prior to that, she served as production dramaturg at American Repertory Theatre, collaborating with directors Robert Brustein, Robert Woodruff, Liz Diamond, and Kate Whoriskey, as well as with multi-media director Bob McGrath on stage adaptations of Robert Coover’s Charlie in the House of Rue and Mac Wellman’s Hypatia. She has dramaturged for the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis and Boston Theatre Works, served as a panelist for the California Arts Council, and is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
Ms. Kiger completed her professional training in Dramaturgy at the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University, where she taught courses in acting and dramatic arts.