Jenny Male
(She/Her/Hers)
Certified Teacher & Fight Director
Jenny Male (she/her) is a Fight Director & Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. She has created choreography for DC theatres such as Studio Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Constellation Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Rep Stage, Olney Theatre, Imagination Stage, Factory 449, and Adventure Theatre. Jenny directed the outdoor drama Tecumseh! from 2014 to 2017 and for many years served as the Fight Director and Dance Choreographer. Other professional directing credits include Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tecumseh!), My Fair Lady, As You Like It (Ozark Actors Theatre), Into The Woods, Evil Dead: The Musical, Urinetown, …Spelling Bee, and Title of Show (Red Branch Theatre Company), Peter Pan, Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte), and How I Became a Pirate (Adventure Theatre). She holds an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University and is Associate Professor of Theatre at Howard Community College. Directing credits at HCC include Eurydice, Twelfth Night, Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line, She Kills Monsters, and Much Ado About Nothing. Two of her productions, Argonautika and Medea, were chosen to perform for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region 2). Jenny has created several stage combat shows including Love Hurts, We Could Be Heroes, and A Little Fight Music.