Accessibility. Play. Perspective.
Embracing the weird in the wonderful, charming in the terrifying, and queer in the classic…
Jess Yates is a midwestern director who invites audiences and collaborators to play with multidimensional perspectives in accessible theatre and new work development.
This year, Jess has directed the remount of Addie Gorlin-Han’s The Root Beer Lady at the History Theatre, The Book Club Play at Lakeshore Players Theatre, a staged reading of Naked Tuesdays at Renaissance Theaterworks, and Academonic by Kiran Arquin at Mixed Blood Theatre as part of the MN Fringe Festival. Currently, Jess is in pre-production for Red by John Logan at Lakeshore Players Theatre.
Jess is proud to be an Associate Member of SDC.
Associations:
(Minnesota) History Theatre, Children’s Theater Company, Mixed Blood Theatre, Yellow Tree Theatre, Theater Mu, Lakeshore Players Theatre, Collide Theatrical Dance Company, Wild Set Theatre Collective, Emerging Professionals Ensemble, Stages Theater Company, MN Fringe Festival, Sod House Theater, Sheldon Theater.
(Elsewhere) Trinity Repertory Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, National Queer Theater, Renaissance Theaterworks, American Alliance for Theatre & Education, Lime Arts Productions, #1MPF One Minute Play Festival, NYU’s Broke People Play Festival, Make/Shift Theatre.