Jena Young (she/her) has been involved with over 30 productions with the MN Fringe Festival as a director, producer, storyteller, dancer, performer, fight choreographer, and clown. Past Fringe shows with long titles include “Caucasian-Aggressive Pandas and Other Mulatto Tales,” “William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead,” “Wilhelmina and Theodore’s Exquisite Victorian Adventure,”  “The Bisexual Unicorn and Other Mythological Creatures,” “My Only Hope for a Hero,” “On the Differences Between Two Ladies and the Resolution Thereof,” and her own one-woman show “Memoirs of a Welfare Queen.”

Outside of the MN Fringe, Jena has worked on such shows as “The Tourist Trap,” “Monsters in a Mirror,” “Young and Fearless,” “Dread the Halls,” “Prescription: Murder,” “Get Thee Behind me Santa,” “Ravenscroft,” “A Klingon Christmas Carol,” “It’s an Honorable Life,” “I’ll Be Home for Kahless: the Hallmark Parody of the Season,” and “Hamlet.” She’s previously known for her work in Vilification Tennis and Human Combat Chess, and as a founder of both Phrenic Impact Theatre and Fearless Comedy Productions.

Jena is a regular at The Encyclopedia Show and local storytelling shows, a co-host of the local Apropos of Nothing Podcast, and president of the board that produces the Twin Cities Horror Festival. She also once placed 5th in a balloon fencing tournament.