
Jess Ducey
Based in New York
they/them • Member Since 2024

My Story
Jess Ducey (they/them) is a writer, producer, fundraiser, life model, and occasional clown with a penchant for new work and queer joy. They are co-chair of the board of National Queer Theater, director of programming for Ring of Keys, operations manager for Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre, and co-producer of Down to Clown, a monthly community for new work development. Jess loves Fringe festivals and touring, and has produced work at Edinburgh, New Zealand, Orlando, NYC, and Montreal Fringe. Catch them at Edinburgh 2025 with Edu Diaz's multi-awarded solo clown show A DRAG IS BORN. Jess previously line-produced for Moxie Arts NYC’s 2024 incubator for new musicals, co-founded and produced Queer AF, Wellington, New Zealand’s first festival of queer art, and created Unfinished Business, an immersive work in which artists shared works in progress over a dinner party in their flat. Their writing has appeared in Radio NZ, Landfall, and Off-Broadway in Primary Stages’ Echoes writers group, where they began development of a play inspired by the true story of doctors who swallowed LEGO heads for science. Jess enjoys nature, dinner parties, public transit, books, unions, cheese, other people’s dogs, cycling (slowly!), knitting, and creating order from chaos. فلسطين الحرة
Sexual Orientation
queer
Gender Identity
nonbinary
Race/Ethnicity
white
Discipline
producer, writer, dramaturg, clown, dancer
Dance Experience
ballet, contemporary, modern, jazz
Unions & Affiliations
UAW / NOLSW 2320