Jessica Kubzansky

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Jessica Kubzansky
Education Harvard University (BA)

Johns Hopkins University (BFA)

Cal Arts (MFA)
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Jessica Kubzansky is an American theatre director and current artistic director of the Boston Court Pasadena Theatre Company.

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Life and career

Kubzansky has directed extensively throughout Southern California and was the 2004 recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence. [1] Kubzansky is a graduate of Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the California Institute of the Arts. [2] [3] [4]

Kubzansky has worked extensively across Southern California theatre, directing works with the Laguna Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, East West Players, Pasadena Playhouse, the Pacific Resident Theatre, and the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Her 2003 Colony Theatre Company production of Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic was named "Best Play" by the Los Angeles Ovation Awards. [5]

Directing credits

YearPlayTheatreNotes
2020Everything That Never Happened Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The Father Pasadena Playhouse with Alfred Molina
2019Hold These Truths San Diego Repertory Theatre
Othello A Noise Within
2018Everything That Never Happened The Theatre @ Boston Court World Premiere
Hold These Truths Arena Stage
2017With Love & A Major Organ The Theatre @ Boston Court
Hold These Truths East West Players
Orange South Coast Repertory
2016Colony Collapse The Theatre @ Boston Court
2015Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles The Getty Villa
Hold These Truths ACT Theatre
Pygmalion Pasadena Playhouse
2014Everything You Touch The Theatre @ Boston Court, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre World Premiere, LADCC Award nomination for Best Director
2013R II The Theatre @ Boston Court LADCC Award for Best Director
The Phantom Tollbooth Mainstreet Theatre Company
I Love to Eat Portland Center Stage
2012 Macbeth The Antaeus Company
The Children The Theatre @ Boston Court
2011 Anne of Green Gables Mainstreet Theatre Company
Camino Real The Theatre @ Boston Court

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References

  1. "'Thugs' and 'Agnes' leading the pack with 5". Variety. February 24, 2004.
  2. "Jessica Kubzansky and Her Love Affair". LA Weekly. April 17, 2002.
  3. "Jessica Kubzansky". 24700. 25 February 2016.
  4. "Jessica Kubzansky : Bret Adams, LTD | Artists' Agency".
  5. "'Gem of the Ocean' shines at the Ovations". Los Angeles Times. November 25, 2003.