Jennifer Ridgway

MFA Theatre for Young People

Jennifer Ridgway is a graduate candidate of the theatre for youth program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.  Her first year at UNCG featured opportunities with the Annual Showcase of International Performing Arts for Young People, the Waldo M. and Grace C. Bonderman Playwriting for Youth National Workshop and Symposium, and the Institute for Educators and the Collision Project at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Ridgway previously worked with Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre Programs, the Smithsonian Institution’s Discovery Theatre, Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Interact Story Theatre and Arena Stage.  She has executed positions in all areas of the creative process in numerous and diverse projects from administration to production from inspiration to performance from design to construction.  She served as a judge for The Helen Hayes Awards, recognizing achievement in theatrical productions in the Washington metropolitan area. 

Ridgway received her Bachelor of Arts in Performance from the University of Maryland, College Park, and was a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Irene Ryan Semifinalist. 

This year she looks forward to teaching “Creative Drama for the Classroom Teacher” to third year education majors and directing “Degas’ Little Dancer”.