ABOUT
Jaclynn Jutting is a freelance director and teaching artist. Directing credits include the award-winning The Wolves (Actor’s Bridge Ensemble), award-winning The Flick (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), The Whale and The Nina Variations (Verge), the award-winning The Amish Project (Belmont/Actor's Bridge Ensemble), Simply Bess (Nashville Rep), Animals Out of Paper (Next Up/Steppenwolf Garage), The Iroquois (Raven), Love and Understanding (Redtwist), Bronte (Promethean Theatre Ensemble), Amazons and Their Men (Belmont), Enola (the side project), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild and Cloud 9 (Roosevelt University). 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. 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, Dominican University and was an artist in residence at Vanderbilt University. 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.