Director / Educator / Teaching Artist
Jeremy Ohringer is a Chicago-based theatre-maker, professor, and teaching artist. He loves adapting and reinvigorating classics, working with playwrights, and devising performance. He seeks to create community, ignite wonder, and challenge what theatre can be.
He is currently an adjunct at DePaul University and a guest lecturer at North Central College. In higher education, he has taught classes in acting and performance, directing, theatre history as well as the business of theatre.
He holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from Boston University where he directed Horizon line: A Tale Inspired by Homer's Odyssey (which he also wrote), Tony Kushner's Angels In America: Perestroika, These Three Sisters: Inspired by Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters, Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht , Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and Of Blood and Dirt: An Adaptation of Homer's Iliad.
Other projects include Briefly Breathless produced by Wondrous Strange and presented as a part of Steppenwolf's LookOut series, milkwhite with The Kinematics, Sad Songs for Bad People with Rough House, a new adaptation of Frank Wedekind's play, Spring Awakening with Fearless Theatre, Who Rowed Across Oceans with Lost Compass Collective, which was presented in both Chicago and at the Edinburgh Fringe festival, and Salve Regina, which toured the country and garnered Javier Rivera a best actor award at the United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC.
As an educator, Jeremy has worked with Steppenwolf, Writer's Theatre, Northlight, Lookingglass, American Theater Company, Global Voices Initiative, Actors Training Center, Shattered Globe, Emerald City, CO/LAB, Parker Plus, Boston University's Summer Theatre Institute as well as the National High School Institute “Cherubs” program at Northwestern University.
In 2015, Jeremy gave a TEDx talk at Hamilton College where he spoke about theater and Limits. To view the talk click here.