Jean is a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Education, working extensively in their
local programs and international consultancies. She received Lincoln Center’s
Directors Emeriti Award in 2012. Jean teaches Theatrical Clown and Aesthetic
Inquiry for The New School for Drama’s BFA and MFA programs and has taught
Theatrical Clown for The Barrow Group for over 15 years. She represented LCE
at the International Teaching Artist Conferences in Oslo, Norway, Brisbane,
Australia and most recently in Edinburgh, Scotland.
As a performer, Jean and director Eric Nightengale presented a trilogy of their
devised work, True Hazards of Childhood, Pants and Skirts, and Elsinore or Bust
for a month of performances at The Barrow Group. Jean’s earlier devised work
Wild Hair was developed with a grant from the Maxine Greene Foundation and
performed at Dixon Place, The Barrow Group Theatre, Mount Tremper Arts, and
The Flynn Center in Vermont. Her current work, Stop/Slow (A Flagger’s Lament),
will premiere in Spring 2018.
Additional performing work includes The Reclamation with Hilary Easton +
Company and Snatches, a play begun at the 78th Street Theatre Lab, performed
at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and London’s New End Theatre, and presented
on BBC Radio 4. Also for the 78th Street Theatre Lab: Beckett’s Rockaby, Naomi
Wallace’s One Flea Spare, and Arlene Hutton’s See Rock City