Biography

Jean Ann Douglass is an inter-disciplinary performance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She creates playful interactive experiences that are infused with theatricality, incorporating a seamless blend of craft and high technology. Along with Eric John Meyer, Jean Ann founded The Truck Project, a company that creates theatrical performances exclusively for performance in rented box trucks. Her original work has been seen at The Kitchen, DUMBO Arts Festival, chashama, Monkeytown, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Lost Horizon Night Market, Marian Spore, New York International Fringe Festival, New Orleans Fringe Festival, and in rental trucks all over the country. She has collaborated on projects at 3LD, Trinity Rep, The Flea, Bushwick Starr, and on various streets and rooftops in Brooklyn as an Isadora programmer, projection designer, choreographer, assistant director, and performer. Jean Ann holds an MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) from Brooklyn College, the only program in the country primarily focused on inter-disciplinary collaboration, and a BFA in Dance and Theatre from Tulane University. Upon graduation from PIMA, she was invited back to Brooklyn College as an Adjunct Professor to teach a course in “Artistic Process and Contemporary Community”, a graduate course on community-based arts theory culminating in collaborative performance. Jean Ann is also a proud member of ERPA: Next Gen, a think tank sponsored by The Field to spark Economic Revitalization in Performing Arts.