Jennifer Jancuska

As a director, choreographer and conceiver of new works, Jancuska brings Broadway tenure to an experimental approach of driving the creative process of theatrical narrative with pedestrian and surreal physicality.  She collaborates across artistic genres, languages, and geographical locations, creating unexpected collaborations with artists who are typically siloed from creative dance making.

Jancuska is the recipient of the Japan-US Creative Fellowship (2024/25), Jerome Robbins “Stories That Move” Residency (2024), CUNY Dance Initiative Fellowship (2024/25), and has been named to the "Women to Watch on Broadway" (2024) by The Broadway Women's Fund. Her work has been commissioned and presented by The Old Globe Theater, Berkeley Rep, The Public Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Goodspeed, Ars Nova, Little Island, Madison Square Garden, New York Musical Festival, The Drama League, The Skirball Center, Trinity Rep, and Universal Theatrical Group, among others.

As Artistic Director of BringAbout for ten consecutive years, Jancuska has collaborated with more than 100 award-winning writers, composers, musicians, creatives and performing artists including Benjamin Velez, Joel Perez, Pig Pen Theatre Company, Taylor Iman Jones, Hannah Cruz, and Scott Wasserman. In this role, she continues to pioneer new methods of integrating dance as a fundamental narrative tool in the development of new musicals and plays.  During this time, she also created BC Beat, an acclaimed bi-annual event recognized by The New York Times as “the place to reimagine the possibilities for dance in musical theater.”

Alongside a career of creating new work, Jancuska has held full-time positions with Broadway shows, including seven years as Resident Choreographer and Dance Supervisor of HAMILTON on Broadway. 

Jancuska is a graduate of Cornell University.  She has spent time studying, teaching and creating in Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, London, Rio, Paris, and Shanghai.  She loves live music, languages, jungles, rock climbing, collaboration, and living in Brooklyn as a family of four.

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