Jenny Grace Makholm
DIRECTOR OF MARKETING, CREATIVE SERVICES AND EVENTS
HOMETOWN: CLINTON, MD
[SHE/HER/HERS]
Jenny is a polymath Brooklyn-based writer, actor, director, visual artist, activist, and producer committed to creating and participating in intersectional feminist work.
Her most recent play, Vanquished, was a Eugene O'Neill conference 2019 Finalist; 21st Century Voices New Play Festival 2020 Finalist; and Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award 2020 Finalist. Her musical Relent was a NYIT Nominee for Best musical.
As an actress, Jenny is perhaps most known as the romantic lead in the indie darling Completely Normal (Amazon Prime Video), Tina Cesa Ward's Producing Juliet (Amazon Prime Video), and the award-winning feature Summertime in New York.
More about Jenny.
Jenny proudly worked for the Knowledge Project coordinating a 5-borough literacy, theater and mentoring program with at-risk youth.
Jenny has co-produced and directed the films He Looks and Looks, One Art, and Skin Balloon, co-produced the plays Savage In Limbo (w/Henry Zebrowski), Tony-award winner Michael Aronov's Off-Broadway production of Manigma, as well as the hit podcast The Blondes, based off the bestseller (Best Fiction Book of the Year by Kirkus, BookPage, and NPR) of the same name.
What does being an #ArtsHero mean to me?
"This movement feels like the most important work I've ever done. It's time to change the conversation surrounding the Arts & Culture sector in the United States. Our actual contribution to the GDP is collossal, so what we really are up against is not data, but bias. It's time for a seat at the table, and to do that we have to change the conversation."