Hannah Jarrell (They/Them, She/Her) is an Ensemble Member and the Director of Community Development at Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, MA, on the ancestral lands of the Nipmuc Nation. Hannah has worked with Double Edge since 2006. She is a quiet engine of DE, sharing art and community, whether acting on stage, walking tall on stilts, or activating social gatherings. Jarrell created and performed the role of the Giantess in Leonora, la maga y la maestra, and further developed this role in DE’s Fall Spectacle Leonora’s World. She has developed roles in numerous Summer Spectacle performances, including the Hoopoe in Shahrazad and Penelope in The Odyssey, and delights in incorporating stilts and flying in her performance work. Jarrell leads K-12 programming at DE and in this capacity directed local youth in the Ashfield Town Spectacle and led a major part of the parade. She also leads DE’s membership programs.
Prior to Double Edge, Jarrell was Managing Director and Performer with Time & Space Limited, an experimental theatre group and community arts organization in Hudson, New York, where she spent four years. Other professional credits include Assistant Director for So Wild ist es in Unseren Wäldern Schon Lange Nicht Mehr with the Rosetheegarten Ensemble in Köln, Germany. Jarrell is 'home-grown' community arts oriented, assisting in multi-lingual cross-border and rural community cultural programming with leaders of the CASS program at Palo Alto Community College in San Antonio and the LBJ Heartland Network in the Texas Hill Country througout her formative years.
Jarrell is a graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX where she received her BA in Theatre, German, and Spanish, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. Jarrell is a native of San Antonio, Texas.
