Photo by Elissa Ha
Jess Kaufman is a multidisciplinary artist, dramaturg, producer, and researcher.
As the Producing Artistic Director of Flying Leap, her thoughtful, playful, ambitious performance work invites young people and families to cross boundaries, in theaters and site-specific performance spaces.
As a practitioner-researcher, Jess works at the intersection of young audiences, embodiment and participation in reception dramaturgy, and site-specificity. She has presented at conferences around the world, and her writing has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals.
Her visual art explores curves in the human form, utilizing sgraffito and painting techniques to explore the relationship between these curves and the object’s.
Jess has been a New Victory Theater LabWorks Artist, a New York Foundation for the Arts “Emerging Arts Leader”, and her work has received support from ART New York, Arts Council England, the New York City Artist Corps, and more.
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