Jessica Rizzo has worked at venues including the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, the Yale Repertory Theatre, the American Theatre of Actors in New York City, and FringeArts in Philadelphia. Her writing for the stage has also been presented at the Hong Kong Arts Series and the Louisville Ballet. Favorite collaborators include Robert Woodruff, Doris Mirescu of Dangerous Ground Productions, and Whit MacLaughlin of New Paradise Laboratories. In 2017, she directed the North American premiere of Elfriede Jelinek’s Shadow. Eurydice Says. Her book Waste was published by punctum books in 2020, and her other writing has appeared in publications including Wired; the Los Angeles Review of Books; Vice; Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis; Theater; Theater Journal; TDR; PAJ; Austrian Studies. She earned her doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.
