Jenn Thompson
CountryUnited States 
GenderFemale
BirthdayDec 13, 1967
BiographyJenn Thompson (born December 13, 1967) is an American stage director. She began her career as a child actor, appearing as Pepper in the original run of Annie on Broadway. As an adult, she later directed three consecutive national tours of the musical between 2022 and 2025, including an engagement at Madison Square Garden starring Whoopi Goldberg as Miss Hannigan.
From 2011 to 2015, Thompsson served as Co-Artistic Director of The Actors Company Theatre, where she directed acclaimed Off-Broadway revivals of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, Tennessee Williams's The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, and Beth Henley's Abundance. In 2016, Thompson was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play for staging Hazel Ellis's Women Without Men with Mint Theater Company at New York City Center.
At Goodspeed Opera House, Thompson has directed productions of Gypsy, Anne of Green Gables, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, and Bye Bye Birdie, earning five consecutive nominations for the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical. Theater critic Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal once noted "It's a wonder why Broadway has yet to take note of Ms. Thompson. Nobody in America is staging better revivals of classic musicals."
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From 2011 to 2015, Thompsson served as Co-Artistic Director of The Actors Company Theatre, where she directed acclaimed Off-Broadway revivals of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, Tennessee Williams's The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, and Beth Henley's Abundance. In 2016, Thompson was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play for staging Hazel Ellis's Women Without Men with Mint Theater Company at New York City Center.
At Goodspeed Opera House, Thompson has directed productions of Gypsy, Anne of Green Gables, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, and Bye Bye Birdie, earning five consecutive nominations for the Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical. Theater critic Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal once noted "It's a wonder why Broadway has yet to take note of Ms. Thompson. Nobody in America is staging better revivals of classic musicals."
Biography from the Wikipedia article Jenn Thompson. Licensed under CC-BY-SA. Full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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