Jennine Willett

Jennine Willett is a director, choreographer, and co-director of Third Rail Projects, a New York-based company known for creating widely acclaimed site-specific, immersive, and experiential theater. Her well-known works include Then She Fell, the long-running hit named one of the Top Ten Shows of 2012 by the New York Times; The Grand Paradise, a 1970s tropical resort housed in a Brooklyn warehouse; Ghost Light, presented by Lincoln Center Theater in and around its Claire Tow Theater; and Learning Curve, a collaboration with Chicago’s acclaimed youth ensemble Albany Park Theater Project. Performed by 33 teen artists, Learning Curve was named one of the Top Ten Shows of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, Time Out Magazine, and the Chicago Sun-Times, who called it “an altogether wondrous, one-of-a-kind, ‘immersive’ masterwork.”

Willett was part of the creative team as a choreographer and additional story writer for the Emmy Award-winning virtual reality film Wolves in the Walls by Fable Studios and has been honored with a Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance for Then She Fell, a Chita Rivera Award for Best Choreography in an Off-Broadway Play for Ghost Light and was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture by Brooklyn Magazine.