Jess Barbagallo

Jess Barbagallo is an American writer, director, and performer based in New York City. He has toured internationally and domestically with Big Dance Theater, the Builders Association, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf (and its Dyke Division) and Half Straddle.

Barbagallo has originated roles in plays by Joshua Conkel, Casey Llewellyn, Normandy Sherwood, Trish Harnetiaux and many others. He appeared as Yann Fredericks in the original cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway.

His playwrighting credits include Grey-Eyed Dogs (Dixon Place), Saturn Nights (Incubator Arts Center), Good Year for Hunters (New Ohio Theatre), Karen Davis Does … (Brooklyn Arts Exchange), Joe Ranono’s Yuletide Log and Other Fruitcakes (Dixon Place), Sentence Fetish (Brick Theater), Melissa, So Far (Andy's Summer Playhouse) and My Old Man (and Other Stories) (Dixon Place).

His writing has been published by Artforum, Howlround, Bomb Blog, New York Live Arts Blog: Context Notes, Brooklyn Rail and 53rd State Press. He is a 2009 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab alum, a 2012 Queer Arts Mentorship mentee, and a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow.

In 2015, Barbagallo was selected to participate in the Persona Seminar think tank at the New Museum and was invited to the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writer’s Group.

Barbagallo has taught theater and writing as a guest artist and adjunct lecturer at Duke University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Brooklyn College, the Vermont Young Playwright’s Festival and The O’Neill Center.[1][2][3][4][5]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
2015 Christmas on Earth/Joe Ranono's Yuletide Log and Other Fruitcakes Joe Ranono

Television

Year Title Episode Role
2021 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit "Return of the Prodigal Son" Sacha Lenski
2012 Gay's Anatomy recurring Dyque van der Goose

Radio

Year Title Role
2021 Marvel's Wastelanders: Hawkeye Max

Theater

Year Title Role
2018 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two performer

References

  1. ^ Tran, Diep (4 February 2016). "Trending Now: The Trans* Experience". American Theatre. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  2. ^ Steinberg, Allison (22 January 2009). "Chicks in a box: La MaMa makes room for a live lesbian soap's "box set."". Time Out. Archived from the original on 2018-08-27. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  3. ^ Barbagallo, Jess (16 July 2012). "Queering Art, Mentorship: Jess Barbagallo & Stacy Szymaszek". BOMB Magazine. Archived from the original on 2017-09-21. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  4. ^ Meehan, Megan (October 1, 2016). "Interview with Jess Barbagallo, the creator of 'My Old Man (and Other Stories)'". AXS. Archived from the original on 2018-08-29. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
  5. ^ Soloski, Alexis (November 9, 2016). "Transgender Playwrights: 'We Should Get to Tell Our Own Stories First'". The New York Times. Retrieved August 28, 2018.