Jack Ferver

Happy birthday to Martha Graham, born on this day in 1894. Learn about the pioneering modern dancer, teacher, and choreographer at a new exhibition opening at the Library for the Performing Arts on May 20, "Martha Graham: The Mother of Psychological Dance," curated by @jackferver .

“The show is a feat of constant storytelling and choreography, including a dance that begins the second act, performed along the path of a pentagram.” - @giadk for @nytimes My Town at @nyuskirball Nov 21 + 22 Photos/Video @ok__mccausland

𝑴𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 & 𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆. 𝑴𝒀 𝑻𝑶𝑾𝑵 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒔 @nyuskirball . 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏. 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒐: @jeremyjacobland

The right time for Jack Ferver’s surreal brand of dark humor is typically as soon as possible. In “My Town,” a queer reinvention of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” the director, choreographer and performer presents a raw and exacting piece of dance-theater that looks at small-town life. But instead of pulling out its sweetness and spunk, Ferver explores a more haunting side of existence. Set in a rural community - inspired by Ferver’s early years in Wisconsin and the struggle of being an artist in New York City - “My Town,” with video by the filmmaker and artist Jeremy Jacob, leans into strangeness. GIA KOURLAS Nov 21-22 at NYU Skirball

August 14 & 15 at 7pm @whitefeatherfarmny . Tickets at their link. The suggested donation supports White Feather Farm’s food access initiatives to support food donations to Good Neighbor of Woodstock. Bliss to work with these actors on my favorite Chekhov et je suis honoré to have been asked by @em_deforest to join this passion project as the late summer night’s fever dream role Arkadina.

Please join us on Saturday, July 26th at 4pm for a special performance by artist Jack Ferver, commemorating the last day of the group exhibition "Veronica, Veronica", curated by Andrew Gardner and Emma Safir at HESSE FLATOW EAST.⁠ ⁠ Performance artist Jack Ferver is Saint Veronica in their new work, "It’s Veronique". Saint Veronica floats, as saints do, backwards over her memories, which may or may not be her’s. It is saintly to float, though hard to do, when people make up stories about you.⁠ ⁠ Please email [email protected] to RSVP for the performance.⁠ ⁠ "Veronica, Veronica" is a group exhibition of 33 international artists currently showing at our gallery space inside a 4,000 square foot former potato barn in Amagansett. The show, organized by independent curator Andrew Gardner and artist Emma Safir, celebrates the titular patron saint whose legend recounts one of the most exalted examples of image generation and transference in the Western world.⁠ ⁠ Jack Ferver (b. 1979, Prairie du Sac, WI) is a New York based writer, choreographer, and performer. Their genre defying performances, which have been called “so extreme that they sometimes look and feel like exorcisms” ('The New Yorker'), interrogate and indict psychological and socio-political issues, particularly in the realms of gender, sexual orientation, and power struggles. Weaponizing spectacle and stark naturalism, character and self, humor and horror, their performance practice is rooted in the shattering effects of trauma, and the numerous selves that can arise from that shattering. Their work has been presented throughout New York City, domestically, and internationally. ⁠Their 16th full-length performance work, My Town, a queering of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, will be at NYU Skirball in Fall of 2025.⁠ ⁠ Exhibition Flyer: Luiza Dale @daleluiza Artist portait, courtesy of Jack Ferver. Photo: Matthew Leifheit @mattelife

Getty up. BIMBO CHOREOpening Night for The Last Bimbo Of The Apocalypse at The New Group. @lastbimbomusical @thenewgroupnyc Cast @patricknfalk @krfuller13 @saragettelfinger @thelukeislam @millyshapiro @nwalks Book, music, lyrics, vocal & electronic arrangements by @mischabreslin Book, additional music, & lyrics by @ptrckfly Music direction, orchestrations, & vocal arrangements by @danielschlosberg Choreographed by me Additional choreography by @byliv_pal Directed & developed with @rorypelsue Production photos by @monique.carboni

Happy Mother(s) Birth(day). Deeply moved to announce that I am the curator for the Martha Graham Exhibition at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts @nypl_lpa . The exhibition opens May 2026 in the Oenslager Gallery. Thank you @marthagrahamdance and @jeromerobbinsdancedivision for this ability to honor her, her piercing work, and her endless contribution to art and what that means for humanity.

Abracadabra with @itsparkerposey . Did horrorography for The Parenting on @streamonmax with scream queens @iambang @coxusa @nikdodani @ediefalco @brandonflynn @lisakudrow directed by @csj214 .

In Jack Ferver’s My Town, the American small town is a portal that provides special access into questions of self-expression and collective agency. Set between an area of upstate New York and Wisconsin, My Town considers the queer experience outside urban metropoles, and the ways physical geography marks the interior terrains of the mind. Ferver has described the project as “exploring the disappearance of the femme,” taking a queer departure from the classic American play Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Ferver’s arsenal of theatrical spectacle, exacting choreography, wild humor, and raw emotion- weave through the tragicomic work of violence, sexuality, mystery, and shaky reconciliation. The dreamlike fluidity and startling jumps of the work are framed and echoed in the video and score by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Jeremy Jacob. My Town by Jack Ferver was commissioned by EMPAC / Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY and Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University (@nyuskirball ) where the work will have its NYC premiere in the Fall. Written, choreographed, performed by Jack Ferver Video, sound score, production design by Jeremy Jacob Management @garenscribner / @pilot_mgmt Image: Jeremy Jacob. Courtesy of the artist.

World Premiere of THE DRAMA at @guggenheim @worksandprocess January 13, 7pm. Written and performed by @lloydknight directed and choreographed by @jackferver , with video by @jeremyjacob___ , the evening length work is an intimate and personal solo dance work inspired by two important women in Knight’s life: his mother and the legendary modern dance choreographer Martha Graham. Laying bare what it takes both physically and psychologically to pursue a life in dance and what led Knight to becoming a principal dancer with @marthagrahamdance , THE DRAMA immerses the audience in its shifts between high octane choreography and a candid script, set against a sweeping film and sound score.

Heartbroken by the loss of Christopher Durang. He changed theater. He changed my life and so many people’s lives personally and artistically. Searching for truly queer theater in highschool I found his work. At 19 I crashed the audition for Betty’s Summed Vacation at Playwrights Horizons and he helped me get cast. He would spend time with me adding lines that we thought were hilarious and/or horrifying. I couldn’t believe it. When the show closed he was so generous with his time as I floundered on where my place may be in THE THEATER. I feel truly gifted by the time I got with him and his genius. May his legacy provide us with more theater that doesn’t stay in simple lanes of saccharine sentimentality, stupidly funny, or boringly self serious- but embraces the full spectrum of the human project in all its hideousness, outrageousness, and heartbroken tenderness.