Jennifer Onopa

ABOUT

As a theater maker, I strive to create performances that invite transformation for participants and audiences,

to shape artful experiences that allow for connection, reflection, recognition, and action,

to listen deeply and create work that is in conversation with the times we live in,

to galvanize stronger communities,

to push limits of form and expand past expectations.

I am currently building artistic roots in my new home of Houston, TX, where I work in the Education and Community Engagement department of the Alley Theatre, collaborating with educators and young people all over the city to nurture new creative voices. I am also a creative producer for the Re/Emergence Collective, a theater group I co-founded in western Massachusetts focused on performance for community healing.

I have been an educator for over 25 years, working as a teaching artist with the Creative Arts Team (NYC) Gallery 37 Projects, and Redmoon Theater (Chicago), as a public school teacher in the New York City Department of Education and the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts School in Massachusetts, and as an instructor at UMass Amherst, Mount Holyoke College (MA), and Lone Star Community College (TX).

Please contact me at: OnopaJ@gmail.com