Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell

Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell

Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell is an independent theatre and performance artist, and co-founder of PEP, an all-female physical theater collective. Most recently she directed her play-opera Drugsong, a commission from Victory Hall Opera, at Brooks Hall at UVA. She was the 2016 Public Artist at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative where she adapted, directed, and produced her play NO WAKE as an outdoor multimedia...
Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell is an independent theatre and performance artist, and co-founder of PEP, an all-female physical theater collective. Most recently she directed her play-opera Drugsong, a commission from Victory Hall Opera, at Brooks Hall at UVA. She was the 2016 Public Artist at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative where she adapted, directed, and produced her play NO WAKE as an outdoor multimedia performance. From 2014-2015 she toured her micro-gallery of wonder, While You Wait, to public locations throughout the city of Charlottesville. In 2008 she founded CLAW (Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers), a feminist performance event that has spread to 25+ cities. Jennifer has an undergraduate degree in English Literature from UVA and an MFA in Playwriting from Hollins University.​

Plays

  • The Scuba Diver by Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: heartbreak, magical realism + 3 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: heartbreak, magical realism, Scuba Diving, love, Sex
    A heartbroken woman receives a visitor in a scuba diving outfit on a strange mission.
  • Days Without Injury by Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Immigrants, factory + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: Immigrants, factory, social justice, law, osha
    Sometimes it's hard to tell what the greater good is.

    Angie has severely injured herself on the job at a garment factory. As she bleeds heavily, she
    struggles with a coworker over whether to report the injury to her supervisor boyfriend and risk the plant closing down or wait 45 minutes until her shift is over to seek medical attention.
  • What Can Be Thrown Overboard by Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, melodrama, satire
    A righteous king. An exiled queen. The people who are caught between.

    The people of Vyland are slowly dying of thirst as their king hoards the water supply. A group of citizens and their exiled queen attempt to overthrow the king and bring peace and water back to the people.
  • Rubble Baby by Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, political + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, political, satire
    An ambitious American reporter and her cameraman stumble upon media "gold" in a war zone and try to capitalize on horrific circumstances.
  • The Shuddering Gymnasium by Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    7–8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: pharmaceutical industry, cheerleading + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political, satire
    Keyword: pharmaceutical industry, cheerleading, mass hysteria, big pharma
    The kids of Mondale High are quaking. Is it environmental, psychological, dietary, viral, bacterial, governmental conspiracy, an act of god, an act of Satan, pharmaceutical, vaccine-related, chemtrails, quantum waves, gay people? A principal and apathetic student try to figure out what's going on and end the wave of convulsive aftershocks spreading throughout the student population.