Joe Jennison

Joe Jennison is the Executive Director of the Cultural Corridor Alliance, a group of 100+ arts and culture organizations in the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area. He is a nine-time produced playwright. His plays have been staged at theaters in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A Beautiful Man won “Best of Fringe” and “Best Comedy” at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in 2003. He was also a recipient of the San Francisco Dean Goodman Award for comedy writing that same year. A Beautiful Man was performed at the Unitarian Society performance space in Iowa City by the City Circle Acting Company in June of 2006 as part of Iowa City's Pride activities.

Joe is also the founder of the Black Doggers, a playwriting group based in Mount Vernon, Iowa.