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.
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Kilroys List/Web 2025 - Peggy (& Ben)
WINNER Red Bull Short New Play Festival, 2024 and 2025
Kilroys List/Web 2023 - Hatchetation
Ensemble Studio Theatre Sloan Commission - Grace/Bliss
Finalist – Jonathan Larson Grant
Bistro Award – The Brass Menagerie
National Music Theatre Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center – Hatchetation
Litsa Tsistera Emerging Artist Grant
Finalist - Stanley Award -Viola
Finalist - Ashland New Plays Festival - Viola
Semi-Finalist - Playwrights Realm Writers Group
Fresh Ground Pepper BRB Retreat Fellow
Denovan Residency/Commission – The Brass Menagerie
IRNE Award Nomination – Alison; Fun Home
Eliot Norton and IRNE Award Nominations – Female Soloist; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
News
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Kilroys Web 2025
Twice in a row, AJJ has a play listed with the Kilroys, this time for her treasonous romp through the American Revolutionary War, PEGGY (& BEN). Check out the 2025 Web!
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And Just Like That
AJJ plays Lulu the caterer in Season 3, Episode 7, “They Wanna Have Fun.”
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Joe Iconis Xmas
AJJ played villainous theatre impresario Vivalynn Nippington in the 15th Annual Joe Iconis Christmas Extravaganza at 54 Below.
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Macbeth
Amy Jo plays Lady M opposite real-life husband Jeff Ronan as Macbeth at Greenbrier Valley Theatre in West Virginia, October 17th - Nov 1st, 2025.
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Bound for Boston
Featuring AJJ’s original musical HATCHETATION. Join us for an insider's look at what's on the horizon for musical theatre! Curated by SpeakEasy Stage Company and Somerled Arts, hosted by Liz Callaway. October 8th, 2025.
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Theatre People
AJJ as Olga the housekeeper in Paul Slade Smith’s screwball comedy. August 1st - 14th, 2025, at the Nantucket Performing Arts Center.
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Regency Girls
Amy Jo plays Mrs. Benton in this world premiere musical comedy at The Old Globe in San Diego, April 3rd to May 11th, 2025
Book by Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan, Music by Curtis Moore, Lyrics by Amanda Green. Directed by Josh Rhodes
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DICKS: THE MUSICAL
Amy Jo plays Sister Tammy in A24’s first-ever musical, starring Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Bowen Yang, Megan Thee Stallion, Josh Sharp, and Aaron Jackson (Amy Jo’s brother)! Winner of the Midnight Madness People’s Choice Award at TIFF 2023.
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dirty laundry
AJJ is Off-Broadway this fall with WP Theatre in Mathilde Dratwa's beautiful new play, also featuring Richard Masur, Constance Shulman, Lakisha May, Sasha Diamond, and Mary Bacon. Sept 21st - Oct 20th, 2024; more info HERE
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Kilroys List
Hatchetation is on the 2023 Kilroys Web, this year’s version of the famous Kilroys List. It’s a huge honor and thrill to be included in this legacy.
Click through to read more!
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PEGGY (& BEN) Reading
AJJ’s play PEGGY (& BEN), a pop-history comedy about Benedict Arnold’s wife, will be the inaugural play in Greenwood Lake Theater’s New Works Festival. In Warwick, NY, on Saturday, March 8th, 2025 at 7:30pm.
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Red Bull Short New Play Festival
AJJ has had a winning play in the Red Bull Short New Play Festival two years running! Come see their ten-minute Tartuffe riff (a TarSpoofe, if you will), The Aurora Method, on Monday, June 23rd at 7:30pm at Symphony Space in NYC.
