Jaclyn Pryor collaboratively creates performances, happenings, rituals, and events with and for communities.  A conceptual artist with backgrounds in physical theatre and community-based art, she creates work that is physically, visually, and viscerally engaged as well as accessible, beautiful, and surprising.  Often, her performance work is large in scale and/or site-specific, and frequently takes place in public places.  Influences include Anne Bogart, Ann Carlson, and Christo and Jean-Claude.

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Jaclyn has been based in Austin since 2002.  She has worked with various companies and collectives, including Redmoon Theatre, CollaborAction, Stage Left Theatre, SCRAP Mettle SOUL, The Bailiwick, and Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago); HERE Arts Center, New York Theatre Workshop, and Brooklyn Arts Exchange (New York); and Frontera @ Hyde Park Theatre, Austin Script Works, Refraction Arts, Theatre Action Project, The Austin Project, The Creative Research Lab, UT Dept. of Theatre and Dance, Odyssey Works, and First Night Austin (Austin).  She has also trained with the SITI Company, The Center for Movement Research (New York), Plasticene Physical Theatre (Chicago), and Soujourn Theatre (Portland), and worked with world-renowned artists Anne Bogart, Ann Carlson, Laurie Carlos, Daniel Alexander Jones, Sekou Sundiata, and Michael Rohd, among others.

In 2005, Jaclyn was commissioned by First Night Austin to create BREAD, for which she won a First Night International "Creative Programming" Award.  In 2006, she conceived and directed pink: a (love) courier service, also commissioned by First Night Austin, underwritten by the Still Water Foundation—nominated as “Best Independent Project of the Year” by the Austin Critics Table 2007.  Pink traveled to Portland last summer for their Pedalpalooza Festival and is on tour to Chicago in 2008.   Her ongoing performance memorial, floodlines, which began in 2004, will conclude its seven-year cycle in 2010.  In fall 2008, Jaclyn is teaming up with Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman of Climbing PoeTree to help produce their Austin production of Hurricane Season.