JENNY PEEK
Founder and Executive Artistic Director

Jenny Peek hails from Pennsylvania. She was born in Allentown and then moved to Philadelphia the summer of her 16th birthday. In 1985 she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Physical Anthropology. Though she originally considered becoming a forensic anthropologist, she switched gears and decided to pursue a career in theater.
She has been working in theater since 1986. After a one year Production Residency at Playwrights Horizons, she began her career in New York City, working as a stage manager in a number of Off-Broadway theaters. Favorite shows include SPUNK and CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (both at the Public Theatre), TIME ON FIRE (Second Stage), Peter Hedge's GOOD AS NEW (Manhattan Class Company) and numerous shows with the Naked Angels Theatre Company and at Tisch School of the Arts. Regionally, she has worked at the Market Theater (in Cambridge, MA), the Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven), the Passage Theatre (Trenton, NJ) and Trinity Repertory Company (Providence). She has been the season stage manager for Festival Ballet Providence since October of 2002.

She has also done work in the film & TV biz. In 1994, Jenny was accepted into the Directors Guild of America's Assistant Director Training Program. Over the next two years she worked as DGA Trainee on several feature films (HACKERS, DEAD PRESIDENTS, THE JUROR, THE FUNERAL and Woody Allen's MIGHTY APHRODITE) and episodic television shows and pilots (LAW & ORDER, FEDS and FIREHOUSE). She became a DGA Assistant Director in 1996 and has worked on a number of episodes of LAW & ORDER, the independent feature film, HUDSON RIVER BLUES, the Boston scenes for the original-but-never-aired pilot for CBS's NUMBERS and a Dunkin Donuts commercial.

But her very favorite work was that which she did with the 52nd Street Project. Jenny began working with this marvelous organization in 1990, and stage managed over a dozen shows with them over the next ten years. Her first exposure to Providence came in the fall of 2000, when she was the Production Stage Manager of Trinity Rep's production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL. She fell in love with the city, realizing that it would be a wonderful place to start a 52nd Street Project replication, and moved to Providence in 2001 to do just that.

Jenny was named one of the "10 People You Don't Know Now But Soon Will…" by Providence Monthly in January 2007. Click here for a link to her "snippet". And click here to send her an email.