J. Giachetti: Community Engagement Manager, Touring Company Actor, Teaching Artist, & Summer Touring Director

J. Giachetti (b. 1995) is a professional non-binary actor, Dramatist, Guild Playwright and Lyricist, Artistic Director, arts educator, and avid poet. Some of their previous creative/performance credits have been The Nurse in “Romeo and Juliet”, Wayne Hopkins in “Puffs” Quasimodo in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Harry in “Company”, the librettist and lyricist of off-Broadway’s “Relapse: A New Musical” (September 2023 at Theatre Row), Playwright of critically acclaimed “Faith in Shackles” and “Inferno: A New Work About Sin”, and director of “The Penelopiad” (2023), “She Kills Monsters” (2022), Dog Sees God” (2021), “Laramie Project” (2019), “How I Learned to Drive” (2019), and “Rabbit Hole” (2018). They are also the Community Engagement Manager, as well as a performing and teaching artist, with Staten Island educational theater company IlluminArt Productions.