Writer/performer: Jennifer Joy Pawlitschek
Director: Ashley Wren Collins

In the solo play, "The Chaos Theory of Now," science nerd Jennifer Joy mashes up chaos theory with a Trump-voting farm wife, a liberal rural politician, an Evangelical homeschooling mom, and a teen punk Antifa activist. Inspired in part by her own Trump-loving farm family, Jennifer reveals how America got to this point – and what’s next.

 

Jennifer Joy is a writer/performer who is passionate about science. She has toured all over the US with her troupe, The SciArt6, and with her science-inspired solo shows, to rave reviews. She’s worked with NASA, the Library of Congress and AESS. Her work has been featured at Highways (Santa Monica); Dixon Place, Emerging Artists’ Theatre, Laurie Beechman Theatre, Wow Café and Theatre, and Fresh Fruit Festival (New York City); Jon Sims Center, The Marsh and Josie’s Cabaret (SF) and at college and conferences across the US. Her podcast, Where Science Meets Art, includes collaborations with hip hop artist, Benu Muhammad. She has an MFA in Drama from UC Irvine.

Ashley Wren Collins is a New York City-based director, producer, choreographer, actor and writer. Recent directing credits: Flak House, I’m Mindful…of My Anxiety, Gay Boy, The Bedbug. Collins directs the new works and thesis projects of MFA and BFA in Dramatic Writing candidates at NYU. Recent acting credits: Shades at Cherry Lane Theatre, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Mother Eve’s Secret Garden of Sensual Sisterhood, for which she won “Outstanding Leading Actress” and was nominated for “Outstanding Choreography.”