Jane Skapek is a theater director, filmmaker and installation artist who creates surreal and elegiac pieces to interrogate the space between physical and digitally imagined reality. Using archived and historical images, live camera, performance and dance, their work centers queer bodies and themes of constructed space. They have developed work in New York City at The Brick, the Tank, Ars Nova Antfest, and Target Margin, among others. Selected Associate and Assistant director credits include two national tours of The Lightning Thief, Jasper (off-Broadway, Signature Theatre), and Angels in America (Broadway, 2018). Skapek received two Fellowship awards during their MFA program at The New School: the Dough Hughes Directing Fellowship, and the Presidential Scholarship of Merit. In 2024, Skapek won best director at the LA International Horror Short Film Festival for their film directorial debut “Close to Home”, shot internationally in Panama. Most recently, their performance piece, How to Win a Gameshow (formerly SEMA) debuted internationally at the Broedplaats Bouw Arts Center, in Amsterdam. Currently, they are directing a queer, drag adaptation of Romeo + Juliet at The Voxel in Baltimore. They are a founding member of the performance collective, exit strategy.