Jenny Magnus is co-founder of The Curious Theatre Branch, co-curator of The Rhinoceros Theater Festival, co-founder of The Curious School.

She has written 5 plays, 28 performance works, countless songs, has had work produced at Museum of Contemporary Art, Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, Gallery 37 Storefront Theater, Theater on the Lake, as well as many small theaters in Chicago, and has toured the US and Europe.

She was named among the Artists of the Year by the Chicago Tribune in 1998, has been on the New City Chicago list of 50 most influential artists since 2001.

She received an artists’ fellowship from Illinois Arts Council, and has released 4 CDs.

She is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts at Columbia College, has taught at the School of the Art Institute, the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the University of Illinois-Chicago, the University of Chicago, and the Chicago Public Schools.

She was named to her high school’s Hall of Fame in 2006.