PRODUCTION HISTORY
My Town
*Premieres March 2025 at EMPAC. Troy, NY.
IS GLOBAL WARMING CAMP? and other forms of theatrical distance for the end of the world
*2022. Mass MoCA. North Adams, MA.
Nowhere Apparent
2020. Collaboration with Jeremy Jacob. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, NYC.
Everything Is Imaginable
2019 / *2018. New York Live Arts. NYC.
I Want You To Want Me
*2016. The Kitchen. NYC.
Night Light Bright Light
*2015. Abrons Art Center/American Realness. NYC.
Chambre
2016. The Watermill Center. Watermill, NY.
2015. New Museum. French Institute Alliance Française/Crossing the Line. NYC.
2015. American Dance Institute. Rockville, MD.
*2014. Bard College: The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts/The House Is Open. Annandale-On-Hudson, NY.
All of a Sudden
*2013. Abrons Arts Center. NYC.
Mon, Ma, Mes / Revisité
2019. Fusebox Festival. Austin, TX.
2017. BalletLab/Temperance Hall. Melbourne, Australia.
2016. Gibney Dance/American Realness. NYC.
2014. Portland Institute of Contemporary Art TBA Festival. Portland, OR.
2013. Abrons Arts Center/American Realness. NYC.
*2012. French Institute Alliance Française/Crossing the Line. NYC.
Two Alike
2012. The Kitchen. NYC.
2012. Institute of Contemporary Art. Boston, MA.
*2011. DiverseWorks Artspace/Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston. Houston, TX.
Me, Michelle
2012. Abrons Art Center/American Realness. NYC.
*2011. The Museum of Arts and Design/Performa 11. NYC.
Rumble Ghost
2011. Performance Space 122/Coil Festival. NYC.
*2010. Performance Space 122. NYC.
A Movie Star Needs A Movie
2010. Théâtre de Vanves. Vanves, France.
2010. Abrons Art Center/American Realness. NYC.
*2009. New Museum. NYC.
Death Is Certain
*2009. Danspace Project. NYC.
MEAT
*2008. Dixon Place, NYC.
When We Were Young And Filled With Fear
*2007. Dixon Place. NYC.
SHORTER WORKS
DESIRE
*2019. Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
These Young Men And Women
2016. Bard College. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
*2012. Interlochen Center for the Arts. Interlochen, MI.
I Am Trying to Hear Myself
2012. Andrew Edlin Gallery. NYC.
2009. Performance Space 122. NYC.
*2008. New Museum. NYC.
Witch Study #1
*2013. Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY.
The Senior Bow
*2012. The Juilliard School. NYC.
Il Peint Moi
*2012. MoMA PS1. Queens, NY.
Acceptance.
*2011. The Juilliard School. NYC.
Vandam Goodbar
*2009. La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. NYC.
CHOREOGRAPHER
Spring 2025: The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse, book by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, music by Michael Breslin. The New Group, NYC.
2022: The Parenting. New Line Cinema / MAX.
2024. The Drama, written and performed by Lloyd Knight. Guggenheim Museum Works and Process,
NYC.
2020. A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You, written by Jeremy O’Harris. Workshop.
Playwrights Horizons, NYC.
2018. Peter Pan. music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
FILM
2023. Nowhere Apparent. Collaboration with Jeremy Jacob. ALL ARTS.
2022. ANNA Collaboration with Jeremy Jacob. The Real Little Lad channel on YouTube.
2021. JackJack. Collaboration with Jeremy Jacob. The Juilliard School.
2020. Goodnight. Collaboration with Jeremy Jacob. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
PUBLICATIONS
2023. Funny Bones: On Comedy. Walker Arts Center.
2022. What Light Is Left. Mass MoCa / Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
GRANTS / RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2024. Dance in Process Residency, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
2023. New York State Council on the Arts Grant.
2023. Breaking the Binary Theatre Residency, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College.
2022. Artist in Residence, Mass MoCA.
2019 – 2020. Madeleine Nichols Fellow - The AIDS Legacy Project at The Jerome Robbins Dance Division at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
2017 Dance In Process (DIP) / Technical Residency at Gibney Dance.
2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists, Performance Art/Theater.
2014 Artist in Residence at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art.
2014 Artist in Residence at The Watermill Center.
2013 Artist in Residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center.
2013 Artist in Residence at Bard College.
2012 Artist in Residence at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University.
2010-2011 Artist in Residence, Abrons Art Center.
2008-2009 Studio Series Residency at Dance Theater Workshop.
2008-2009 Artist in Residence at Chez Bushwick.
PRESS
Moen, Matt: “Jack Ferver Mourns A Lost Generation in Nowhere Apparent”, Paper Magazine, March 6, 2023
Fuhrer, Margaret: “The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call it Performance Art”, The New York Times, November 22, 2021
Marius, Marley: “Anatomy of a Play Put On Hold: Jeremy O Harris’: A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You”, Vogue, July 9, 2020.
Kourlas, Gia: “Where Dance Fans Can Escape From Our ‘Sci-Fi Horror’ Moment”, The New York Times, May 5, 2020.
Gates, Phillip: “Jack Ferver: Everything Is Imaginable”, Contemporary Performance, January 12, 2019.
Arthurs, Faye: “Imagination is Everything”, Fjord Review, January 12, 2019.
Burke, Shiobhan: “Dancing Their Friends and Heroes (and My Little Pony)”, The New York Times, April 5, 2018.
Kourlas, Gia: “Who Made Them Feel Mighty Real”, The New York Times, April 3, 2018.
Bendall, Susan: “Mon, Ma, Mes (Revisité)”, Dance Australia, May 8, 2017.
Fuhrmann, Andrew: “Jack Ferver and Persona”, RealTime, May 8, 2017.
Jowitt, Deborah: “The Road to Dancer Hell”, ArtsJournal, July 8, 2016.
Shaw, Helen: “Jack Ferver: Chambre”, TimeOut New York, September 29, 2015.
Boisseau, Rosita: “Danseurs hors cadre”, Le Monde, September 25, 2015.
Kourlas, Gia: “Dancer’s Homage to a Kindred Soul”, The New York Times, January 1, 2015.
Burke, Shiobhan: “Visual Arts Come to the Theater as Genres Blend and Bend”, The New York Times, November 23, 2014.
Macaulay, Alastair: “Celebrating the Unorthodox with Startling Footwork and Incessant Talk”, The New York Times, January 22, 2013.
Macaulay, Alastair: “American Realness Festival at Abrons Art Center, The New York Times, January 15, 2013.
Boynton, Andrew: “Best Moments In Dance 2012”, The New Yorker, Culture Desk, December 17, 2012.
Boynton, Andrew: “Dance of the Bullied Child”, The New Yorker, Culture Desk, May 24,2012.
La Rocco, Claudia: “Two Performa 11 Duets, Distinct Yet Conversant in Their Shared Themes”, The New York Times, November 17, 2011.
Scherr, Apollinaire: “Rumble Ghost”, The Financial Times, December 15, 2010.
Kourlas, Gia: “Laughing and Crying at Ghosts Fictive and Real”, The New York Times, December 11, 2010.
Vincentelli, Elisabeth: “Rumble Ghost at PS 122”, The New York Post, December 13, 2010.
Wilton, Kris: “Jack Fever, New Museum”, Modern Painters, February, 2010.
Burton, Johanna: “Jack Ferver, New Museum”, Artforum, January, 2010.
La Rocco, Claudia: “A Tag Team Awaiting Its Close-Up”, The New York Times, October 17, 2009.
Velasco, David: “Dance: Best of 2009”, Artforum, December 2009.
TEACHING
2013 - CURRENT: Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance at Bard College
2024: Lecture at Harvard University’s Theater Dance & Media / Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
2019: Lecture at School of Visual Arts Design MFA.
2018: Lecture at Yale Photography MFA.
2010-16: Guest Faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
2015. Faculty at American Dance Festival.
2014: Lecture at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
2013. Guest Faculty at SUNY Purchase.
OTHER
As an actor credits include the independent films WÜM and Gayby ,the television shows High Maintenance (HBO) and Strangers With Candy (Comedy Central), numerous theater productions starting with the premiere of Christopher Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons), and the viral performance @thelittlelad on TikTok. With the QWAN Company: SWAN!!! and NOTES!!! (Williamstown Theater Festival, Performance Space 122 and Abrons Art Center).