Jessica Thebus is an an Associate Professor of Theater at Northwestern University and directs the MFA Directing program. Last season she directed Buzzer by Tracey Scott Wilson at Goodman Theater where she has previously directed Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss (world premiere) and also Rhul’s The Clean House. At Steppenwolf Theatre Company she has directed Sex with Strangers, Intimate Apparel, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, No Place Like Home, When the Messenger is Hot (also at 59 E. 59th in NYC) and Sonia Flew. Additional credits: Collected Stories (American Blues Theater—Jeff nomination), Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (Next Theatre); As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Feast: an intimate Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theater with Redmoon Theater—Jeff nomination); Orlando (Court Theatre); Harriet Jacobs (Kansas City Rep); A Civil War Christmas (Huntington Theatre Company); Our Town–with Anna D. Shapiro, They All Fall Down, In The Garden (Lookingglass); Jekyll and Hyde, Inherit the Wind, Red Herring (Northlight Theatre); Eurydice (Victory Gardens); The Turn of the Screw (Writers’ Theater); and the world premiere of Welcome Home Jenny Sutter (The Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Kennedy Center). Favorite projects: Pulp at About Face Theatre (Jefferson Award nomination—Best Director, After Dark Award—Best Production); Winesburg, Ohio also at About Face (Jeff nomination—Best Director, After Dark Award—Best Director); Ms. Thebus has also toured internationally with the Bread and Puppet Theater.