Jenny McConnell Frederick is a Director, Producer, and maker of impossible theatre. She’s the co-Artistic Director of Rorschach Theatre which she founded in the summer of 1999 with Randy Baker. For Rorschach, she created and developed the company’s groundbreaking pandemic pivot Psychogeographies and was Helen Hayes Award nominated for her co-adaptation of Angel Number Nine and has directed more than a dozen shows including the Helen Hayes Nominated So Late Into The Night, Angel Number Nine, Voices Underwater and God of Vengeance as well as both of the sold-out runs of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere. She also directed the Helen Hayes Award Nominated Fantastagirl and the Math Monster at Adventure Theatre in 2022. In 2015, she conceived and directed Truth & Beauty Bombs, an original work based on the Canadian webcomic, “A Softer World.” She co-created Chambers of the Heart and MOVE!, two immersive dance/theatre projects at Word Dance Theatre. She served as Artistic Director of CulturalDC’s Source Festival and Mead Theatre Lab Program. In that capacity she oversaw the selection, development and production of more than 200 works for the stage over nearly a decade. Work developed and produced by Jenny at the Source Festival boasts multiple National New Play Network Rolling World Premieres, several American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg Award Nominations, and an Osborn Award Winner.

Jenny has directed for Theater J, Capital Fringe Festival, Catholic University and University of Maryland. She’s served as a member of Theatre Washington Advisory Board and a mentor director for the Theatre Lab’s Honors Acting Conservatory and for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival and was a featured speaker at the CityWrights Conference in Miami. She graduated cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Theatre and briefly joined Mensa for the free pencils. She lives in Takoma, DC with her husband and their long-term collaboration, a son named Thane.