ABOUT
Jaclynn Jutting is a freelance director and teaching artist. Directing credits include A Vote of Her Own, a new musical by Candace Corrigan and Janne Henshaw, the award-winning productions The Wolves and The Amish Project (Actor’s Bridge Ensemble), The Flick and The Whale (Verge). Other regional credits include White Rabbit Red Rabbit (Verge), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nashville Shakespeare Festival), Sea Wall (Oz Arts Nashville), the Jeff-nominated productions of Mosquitoes (Steep) and The Seagull (Eclectic), Simply Bess (Nashville Rep), Animals Out of Paper (Next Up/Steppenwolf Garage), The Iroquois (Raven), Love and Understanding (Redtwist), Bronte (Promethean Theatre Ensemble), and Enola (the side project). As an Artist in Residence with Vanderbilt University, she directed Annie Baker’s Uncle Vanya and with Roosevelt University, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild and Cloud 9. As the former Associate Artistic Director of Vitalist Theatre, she directed Kobo Abe’s The Ghost Is Here, David Hare’s The Bay at Nice, for the Suzan-Lori Parks 365 Days/Plays Festival and Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children (as Associate Director), which won an After Dark Award for Best Direction. She was a 2022 Fellow with the Tennessee Playwrights Studio, and a recipient of First Night Awards for Outstanding Direction (2018 & 2019) for her work on The Wolves, The Flick and The Amish Project, which also received a KCACT citation. She has written a post-modern adaptation of Susanna Centlivre’s The Basset Table, which can be found on the New Play Exchange. As an Assistant Director, Jaclynn worked on Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers (Steppenwolf), The Sins of Sor Juana (Goodman), Up (Steppenwolf) and also was the assistant director for Tony-award winner Mary Zimmerman on her adaptation of Bernstein’s Candide (Goodman).
Jaclynn is an Assistant Professor at Northern Arizona University, an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and is Board Development Chair of Verge Theater. She also has taught with Lipscomb University’s LIFE program in the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center. She spent 5 years as the Director of the BFA-Directing program at Belmont University, where she was an Assistant Professor. She has taught at Northwestern University (where she received her M.F.A. in Directing), MTSU, Roosevelt University, Columbia College and Dominican University. She has a book under contract with Taylor & Francis on 21st Century American Stage Directing, (anticipated publication date of 2028). In addition to her work in the theatre, she spent 7 years working on public health and environmental campaigns at the Environmental Law & Policy Center. She is an environmentalist and committed to the intersection of theatre, society and the political. She received her B.A. from Knox College and was named a semifinalist for the 2014 Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists.