Jess Ducey

Jess Ducey (they/them) is a writer, producer, and occasional clown with a penchant for new work and queer joy. They are co-chair of the board of National Queer Theater, director of programming for Ring of Keys, operations manager for Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, and co-producer of Down to Clown, a monthly community for new work development. They are also producing queer solo shows at NYC, Montreal, and Edinburgh Fringe. Jess previously produced for Moxie Arts NYC’s incubator for new musicals, co-founded Queer AF, Wellington, NZ’s first festival of queer art, and created Unfinished Business, in which artists shared works in progress over a dinner party in their flat. Their writing has appeared in Radio NZ, Landfall, and off-Broadway in Primary Stages’ Echoes emerging playwrights residency. Jess enjoys nature, dinner parties, public transit, books, unions, cheese, other people’s dogs, cycling (slowly!), knitting, and creating order from chaos. فلسطين حرة @thejduce