Jess Barbagallo is an American writer, director, and performer based in New York City. He has toured internationally and domestically with Big Dance Theater, the Builders Association, Theater of a Two-Headed Calf (and its Dyke Division) and Half Straddle. Barbagallo has originated roles in plays by Joshua Conkel, Casey Llewellyn, Normandy Sherwood, Trish Harnetiaux and many others. He appeared as Yann Fredericks in the original cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway. His playwrighting credits include ''Grey-Eyed Dogs'' (

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), ''Saturn Nights'' (Incubator Arts Center), ''Good Year for Hunter''s (

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), ''Karen Davis Does …'' (Brooklyn Arts Exchange), Joe Ranono’s Yuletide Log and Other Fruitcakes (

), ''Sentence Fetish'' ( Brick Theater), ''Melissa, So Far'' (Andy’s Playhouse) and ''My Old Man'' (and Other Stories) (

). His writing has been published by

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, Bomb Blog, New York Live Arts Blog: Context Notes, Brooklyn Rail and 53rd State Press. He is a 2009 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab alum, a 2012 Queer Arts Mentorship mentee, and a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow. In 2015, Barbagallo was selected to participate in the Persona Seminar think tank at the New Museum and was invited to the

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Early Career Writer’s Group. Barbagallo has taught theater and writing as a guest artist and adjunct lecturer at

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, the Vermont Young Playwright’s Festival and The O’Neill Center.

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