Jennifer Kiger

Lecturer in Playwriting

Jennifer Kiger was Associate Artistic Director of Yale Repertory Theatre and Director of New Play Programs of Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre from 2005-2023. Since its founding in 2008, the Binger Center has supported the work of more than 70 commissioned artists and underwritten the world premieres and subsequent productions of 35 new American plays and musicals at Yale Repertory Theatre. Ms. Kiger came to Yale Rep from South Coast Repertory, where she was Literary Manager from 2000–2005 and co-director of the Pacific Playwrights Festival. Prior to that, she was a production dramaturg at American Repertory Theater and adapted Robert Coover’s Charlie in the House of Rue and Mac Wellman’s Hypatia for the stage with director Bob McGrath. She has been a dramaturg for the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis and Boston Theatre Works; a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council; and a consultant for the Fuller Road Artist Residency. She is a founding member of New Neighborhood. Ms. Kiger completed her professional training at the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, where she taught courses in acting and dramatic arts.