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,” “A Very Honorable Christmas,” 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.
