Jay Eddy (they/them) is a generalist: writer, composer and sound artist, performer, maker of image- and object-texts. They are a Mad Crip Queer Enby Jew, and their work is rooted in a trauma-informed and deeply neuroqueer Weird Futurity (meaning: predestined sense of what-is-to-come as a repeating pattern of what-has-been). They are interested in hybrid and transdisciplinary forms integrating music, theater and performance art, film and video art, installation, testimony, memoir, poetry, translation, and ritual. In 2022, their solo-ish show Driving in Circles won the Richard Rodgers Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award and Musical Theatre Award, both from the Kennedy Center. They are a current New Jewish Culture Fellow and a recent New Harmony and Yaddo resident, Jonathan Larson Grant finalist, New York Foundation for the Arts and Connecticut Office of the Arts fellow. Their work for the stage has been called, “Bracingly original, astonishingly resourceful, and daringly theatrical,” and, “a joy to listen to...a beautiful tapestry of sound.” As a performer, they’ve been called, “Kate McKinnon on a cocaine bender.” MFA Playwriting, Boston University; MA Music Theatre, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.