Jennifer Childs is the Artistic Director of 1812 Productions for whom she has created and directed The Big Time, Another Big Time, Like Crazy Like Wow, Something Wonderful Right Away, Always A Lady and Double Down. In addition to her work at 1812 she has performed and/or directed for the Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Mum Puppettheatre, Act II Playhouse, Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center, Lantern Theatre Company and the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival. She is the winner of the 1999 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Theatre Artist. In 2000 she was awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship in the Arts grant to attend the School of Physical Theatre in London. Recent collaborations with solo artists include working on new pieces with actor/mask-maker Aaron Cromie and puppet opera diva, Susan Vitucci.