Jillian Jetton

mercury store directing LAB

This Spring I will experiment with staging temporal dislocation through the Mercury Store Directing Lab, facilitated by Claudia Zelensky and Manuel Ortiz.

SEE/UNSEE | LAKE LUCILLE CHEKHOV PROJECT

In July I co-directed with Brian Mertes a workshop of a new musical by Lila Blue. Inspired by the life and work of radical Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, this project conjures a story of grief, queerness, love, and the divine.

Co-producers: Melissa Kievman + Trevor Wang / Sound: Daniel Baker / Lights: Betsy Chester / SM: Lisa McGinn / Performers: Lila Blue, Jo Lampert, Maude Mitchell, Kai Thomani Tshikosi, Gabriel Ebert, Julian Crouch, Vicky Finney, Gunnar Manchester, Phil Roebuck, Saskia Lane, Luna Porta-Lane, Mariana Quinn-Makwaia, Noga Cabo, Adam Cabo

HILMA: AN IMAGINED LIFE | THE TANK

In April I directed a reading of a new musical by Lila Blue. Inspired by the life and work of radical Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, this project conjures a story of grief, queerness, love, and the divine.

Producer: Melissa Kievman / Sound Designer: Daniel Baker / Asst. Director: Kamilah Cooper-Charles

Flesh Fog | MFA Thesis performance

For my MFA Thesis I presented the first iteration of FLESH FOG, written & created by me in collaboration with Zoé Fonck, with sound by Lila Blue.

In the long wake of a life-altering night, the fractured parts of one woman navigate towards each other through a warped, sputtering, and foggy timescape.

≈ [almost equal to] | SLC Theatre

In November 2022 I directed ≈ [Almost Equal To] by Jonas Hassen Khemiri at Sarah Lawrence College.  A web of people wrestle with the indignities and absurdities of late-stage capitalism, asking: What power do we have to change our inherited financial realities and beliefs? What about the systems that create them?

Spout | SLC Reading series

This March I directed a week-long developmental workshop of Spout, a new play by Jeremy Lesifko-Bremer, as part of the Sarah Lawrence College First Look Reading Series. We used our time with performers to experiment with spatial, embodied and sonic manifestations of this poetic text. The week culminated in a lightly staged reading and talk back, moderated by Professor Mallory Catlett, which can be viewed here.

the GAP | SLC Downstage

In December 2021 I directed The Gap by Emma Goidel for the Sarah Lawrence College Downstage Theater Company. Photos and credits can be seen here.