Jay Eddy is a generalist: composer, writer, performer, sound artist, etc primarily creating work for live theater and building a hybrid and transdisciplinary practice integrating theater and performance art, music, film and video art, installation, testimony and memoir, poetry and essay, translation, and ritual. Their solo show DRIVING IN CIRCLES won the Richard Rodgers Award (American Academy of Arts and Letters), as well as the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award and Musical Theatre Award, (Kennedy Center). THE GULL, their musical adaptation of Chekov’s ЧАЙКА, also won the Kennedy Center’s Musical Theatre Award. They are a recent Elliot Norton Award winner, Folger Artistic Research Fellow, New Jewish Culture Fellow, New Harmony and Yaddo resident, Jonathan Larson Grant and National Music Theatre Conference finalist, New York Foundation for the Arts and Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellow. Their work as a generative artist is rooted in a trauma-informed and deeply neuroqueer Weird Futurity (meaning: predestined sense of what-is-to-come as a repeating pattern of what- has-been). Their work for the stage has been called, “Bracingly original, astonishingly resourceful, and daringly theatrical,” and, “a joy to listen to...a beautiful tapestry of sound.” As a performer, they’ve been called, “Kate McKinnon on a cocaine bender.” Published work includes poems and essays with North American Review (Runner Up, Terry Tempest Williams Prize in Creative Nonfiction), Tikkun, Pidgeonholes, Poets Reading the News, Tiny Seed, Tulip Tree. MFA in Playwriting at Boston University; MA in Music Theatre from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama; BA in Stage & Screen studies at Bowdoin College; alum of Moscow Art Theatre School’s summer intensive.