Jennifer Ponder

Jenn has been the THDA Department Coordinator since 2023. She has previously worked as a special education teacher and in her role as Lighting Designer and Technical Director for the Middlebury College Dance Department from 1997-2021, she designed lighting (both pre-meditated and improvised) for theater and dance in the US and abroad; including Flynnspace, Shadowland Theatre, SUNY New Paltz, Bennington College, the Yard on Martha’s Vineyard, the Kennedy Center, the Dallas Theatre Center, Glimmerglass Opera, the American Dance Festival, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic and various tiny theaters in NYC. She holds an MFA from Southern Methodist University. She would like to acknowledge and thank the invaluable student worker teams that help keep the department going!