Jacquelyn Landgraf is a creator and director who develops and produces original live performance and interdisciplinary work, discovers bold new voices, and forges opportunities for artists to experiment, collaborate, and take creative risks.

She is an avid champion of artists-in-process, seeking performances and stories that push beyond traditional forms and bring unexpected people and ideas together.

Jacquelyn is the Artistic Director of The Elysian, a nonprofit theater in Los Angeles’ Frogtown, and a prolific incubator of alt-comedy, experimental theater, genre-bending and boundary-pushing performance. With a mission to showcase and nurture new work from emerging and established artists, The Elysian hosts classes and workshops, community events, artist residencies, and development initiatives like the Edinburgh Percolator and the acclaimed Spaghetti Festival of new work.

Teaching has been a vital part of her creative career and development. For over fifteen years, Jacquelyn was on the master acting faculty at the Atlantic Theater Company through NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She developed the education programming for the Elysian and the New York Neo-Futurists, the experimental theater company she co-led from 2005-2012. She leads performance and writing workshops across the country and internationally.

As a performer, she was in the premieres of Three Sisters Not By Chekhov (Edinburgh Fringe), Deaf West’s Orpheé, Anna Nicole the Opera (BAM/NYCityOpera) John Guare’s 3 Kinds of Exile (Atlantic), The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, Volume 1 (Drama Desk nomination), Suzan Lori Parks’ 356 Days/365 Plays (The Public Theater), and Blue-s-cat at the Invisible Dog, where she was Artist-in-Residence. She is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the two-season musical fiction podcast, It Makes A Sound, originally on Night Vale Presents, now on Realm Network.