Jen thinks about humans. So she likes to. Make art about them.
Jen Rowe is an actor, director, and theatrical troublemaker
who likes her work smart, strange, funny, and a little dangerous.
A longtime AEA/SAG actor and founder of The Theatre Company,
she has built a career moving between film, television, experimental theatre, devised work, and new plays—with recent film premieres at
SXSW and Tribeca and credits including Grimm, The Librarians, and Netflix’s The Night Always Comes.
She has spent two decades making work that puts rigor and play in the same room.
Jen is endlessly curious about why people behave the way they do—especially when they
behave in ways she doesn't understand.
Jen is endlessly curious about why she behaves the way she does—especially when she
behaves in ways she doesn't understand.
For her, storytelling is one of the most direct paths into that question:
toward empathy, contradiction, and the strange distance between
“I understand exactly why you did that” and “I could never, ever do that.”
She loves the calibration that happens through acting and storytelling—
the chance to discover where we are authentically close to another person,
and where we are authentically worlds apart.
As a director and producer, Jen gravitates toward new work,
bold writers, unconventional spaces, and theatrical experiences that make an audience lean forward.
From award-winning productions of Tender Napalm to devised solo work, site-specific theatre,
commissioned films, and her ongoing experiments with The Theatre Company,
she invites you to lean in.
She wants to work with artists who are curious, generous, rigorous,
and willing to get a little weird.
She believes art should be approached with wonder—
and that audiences should leave with a little more of it than they came in with.