Jenny Romaine is a NYC based director, designer, puppeteer, and educator who co-founded the Obie winning Great Small Works visual theater collective to keep theater at the heart of social life. She is music director of Circus Amok and has directed/ designed puppet pageants, street spectacles, operas, toy theater shows, acts for clubs, black box productions, and works for puppets on film including “Muntergang and other Cheerful Downfalls,” The Sukkes Mob featured in Punk Jews, The Spectacle of the Rising Tide for the River to River Festival, NYC and Bobe Mayses: Yiddish Knights and other impossibilities with Yiddish Summer Weimar and more. Romaine anchors puppet theater workshops co-led by formerly incarcerated individuals for youth in NYC jails with Inside Change, and for two decades has directed/co-created the JFREJ/Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee's pan Jewish diasporist, queer, abolitionist, feminist, antifascist, trans, & very very maximalist Purimshpil extravaganzas serving thousands. Romaine has worked as a puppeteer with GSW, Amy Trompetter, Bread and Puppet Theater, Viva DiConcini, Chinese Theatre Works, and Janie Geiser. She is featured in "Dazzle Camouflage: Spectacular Theatrical Strategies for Resistance and Resilience" a monograph by Ezra Berkley Nepon and is a founding member of Naming The Lost /Memorials.