Sneak Peek: Jenny Koons Podcast

Jo Reed:  In your approach to directing, you really seemed to come at the work collectively. It's a participatory process for the artists and the creators, but for the audience as well.

Jenny Koons:  Right! I feel like the thing that's so magical about theater is that it continually reminds us at its best that we are just people in a room all agreeing to imagine the same thing for a set amount of time. That's when it's the most delightful! When you never escape that you're in a library or a gym or on the ferry, but you are all making an agreement to go on a ride together. And, I've said for a while that I feel that directing is community organizing in this. Because it's guiding a group of strangers towards something that doesn't exist. Something that's invisible. And that, to me, feels like such an important exercise in this moment where we're all kind of careening towards something we don't really know what it is. So, to be in the practice of participating and collectively imagining feels powerful in this moment, in small ways and in large ways. Politics to performance in a park.