Photo collage of 2022 — Top: Still from THE CATASTROPHIST (April-May); SHINE A LIGHT: Love of Theater installation (February); B.A.S.H virtual performance (April)
Middle: Jungle Theater Artistic Cohort; LynLake Street Art Series (August); SHINE A LIGHT: Toy Theatre (April)
Bottom: Jungle Serial: Words + Music (August); Whittier Elementary Installation (June); EVERY BRILLIANT THING (October-November)

2021 brought many changes to Twin Cities theater, from new health and safety requirements to re-evaluating how theater is made and experienced. Since March 2020 the Jungle Theater has worked towards a more accessible and honest form of art making and representation.

This past year the Jungle continued to showcase artists, students and community organizations through our SHINE A LIGHT window installations, which included works from Jungle artists, University of Minnesota students, community groups and more.

In April of 2021, the organization announced a new leadership model, with Christina Baldwin as Artistic Director and an addition of a brand-new Artistic Cohort, comprised of four professional artists from a range of theatrical disciplines to enhance the Jungle’s leadership team and help shape the direction of the theater (Sequoia Hauck, JuCoby Johnson, James Rodríguez, and Angela Timberman).

In addition to strengthening our ties in our artistic community, the Jungle invested in our LynLake community during this summer’s Street Art Series as a co-presenter with the LynLake Business Association and Legacy Glassware. The event brought together over 1,000 people to tour the LynLake neighborhood, watching live mural painting, listening to music on the Jungle’s outdoor stage, and participating in many community partner events.

This fall finally brought a return to more traditional live theater with the honest and heartwarming production EVERY BRILLIANT THING. A play that "…truly exemplifies everything we love about theater and have missed so greatly, and that just can't be replicated over zoom - the shared humanity of laughing, crying, breathing in a room with friends and strangers, sharing the communal and ephemeral experience of live theater." (Cherry and Spoon, "Every Brilliant Thing")

JuCoby Johnson, Photo by Lauren B. Photography

In addition to all these brilliant things, the Jungle also embraced a new, more equitable ticketing model, Pay As You Are Pricing, originally created by our friends at Theater Mu, which allows a broader audience to experience theater.

This has been incredibly meaningful work and we need your help to do even more. We hope you will join us in working towards these significant, essential, and ambitious aims. There is one more week to support the Jungle Theater's mission to create courageous and resonant theater in 2021! We welcome your support as we head into 2022 with gratitude, creativity, and optimism.

Thank you for making our work possible and for helping our community thrive.

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