Amy Jo Jackson

(they/she) is a performer, playwright, composer/lyricist and glitter alien based in New York City. AJJ’s original musical Hatchetation was selected for the prestigious National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in 2021, and has also been developed through She-Collective, Untitled Musical Project, and Fresh Ground Pepper’s PAL program. Her pop-history Revolutionary War comedy Peggy (& Ben) made the 2025 Kilroys List/Web, and was the inaugural play in Greenwood Lake Theater’s New Works Play Reading series in March of 2025. Her acclaimed solo cabaret The Brass Menagerie was commissioned in 2019 by the Denovan Fellowship in Cabaret, and was the recipient of a 2022 Bistro Award. As an actor, Amy Jo has performed with the Old Globe, WP Theatre, Company XIV, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Exit Pursued by a Bear, Prospect, Syracuse Stage, Arkansas Rep, Flat Rock, Weston, Theatre Works Hartford, and many more. Their work as a kabarettist and nightlife artist has found them on just about every cabaret and comedy stage in the city, both the glamorous and decidedly unglamorous kind. As a voice/text/dialect coach, they’ve worked extensively in NYC and regionally, most notably on Broadway’s Kinky Boots. BFA Boston Conservatory.