Jessica Kubzansky

Jessica Kubzansky is an American theatre director and current artistic director of the Boston Court Pasadena Theatre Company.

Life and career

Kubzansky has directed extensively throughout Southern California and was the 2004 recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence. Kubzansky is a graduate of Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and the California Institute of the Arts.

Kubzansky has worked extensively across Southern California theatre, directing works with the Laguna Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, East West Players, Pasadena Playhouse, the Pacific Resident Theatre, and the Los Angeles Theatre Center. Her 2003 Colony Theatre Company production of Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic was named "Best Play" by the Los Angeles Ovation Awards.

Directing credits Year Play Theatre Notes 2020 Everything That Never Happened Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Father Pasadena Playhouse with Alfred Molina 2019 Hold These Truths San Diego Repertory Theatre Othello A Noise Within 2018 Everything That Never Happened The Theatre @ Boston Court World Premiere Hold These Truths Arena Stage 2017 With Love & A Major Organ The Theatre @ Boston Court Hold These Truths East West Players Orange South Coast Repertory 2016 Colony Collapse The Theatre @ Boston Court 2015 Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles The Getty Villa Hold These Truths ACT Theatre Pygmalion Pasadena Playhouse 2014 Everything You Touch The Theatre @ Boston Court, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Cherry Lane Theatre World Premiere, LADCC Award nomination for Best Director 2013 R II The Theatre @ Boston Court LADCC Award for Best Director The Phantom Tollbooth Mainstreet Theatre Company I Love to Eat Portland Center Stage 2012 Macbeth Antaeus Theatre Company The Children The Theatre @ Boston Court 2011 Anne of Green Gables Mainstreet Theatre Company Camino Real The Theatre @ Boston Court