jkjk is married couple: punk rocker and Queer performance artist khattieQ and writer, comedian, and theatre maker Jenny Larson. The two create devised queer performances that centers joy and disrupt the status quo.
photo by Minerva Villa
khattieQ and Jenny began working together in 2015 as part of Adrienne Dawes’ Denim Doves, a play devised with Salvage Vanguard Theater. Since then they have been artists-in-residence at the Osage Arts Community in Belle, MO (2016) and performed at the Kaustinen 50th Anniversary Folk Music Festival in Finland (2017). In 2019, they participated in the Vancouver B.C. Interplay Festival. In 2020, they were awarded the Vancouver Fringe New Play Prize courtesy of Playwright Theatre Centre. Their work has shown at OUTsider Festival, Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, Queer Arts Festival, and INVERSE Festival. Their work has been developed with support from Rumble Theatre, From the Corner Productions, frank theatre company, and Neworld Theatre.
Their piece Desperately Seeking Comfortable Shoes was written with support from the Emerging Playwrights Unit and the Bill Millerd Fund at the Arts Club in Vancouver, Canada. jkjk has participated in the Canadian Digital Dramaturgy Initiative with the Playwright Theatre Centre, the NYC’s Workshop Theatre Fall Intensive, the GVTPA’s Digital Connections Co-Hort, and the New Harmony Project writers conference. In 2022, jkjk co-directed Adrienne Dawes play Casta, presented by Blanton Museum of Art & produced by Salvage Vanguard Theater with support from the MAP Fund, NEA, and M-AAA. In 2025, they received a Trust For Mutual Understanding grant to take their piece UNLIVED LIVES to Germany to share work at the Frankfurt Lab and TnT in Marburg.
We would like to acknowledge that we are currently building work on the Indigenous lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what is now so-called North America.
This project was supported in part by the City of Austin Economic and Development Department from 2023-2025. We acknowledge the support of the BC Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts 2020-2021. The Canada Council for the Arts is Canada’s public arts funder, with a mandate to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. The Council champions and invests in artistic excellence through a broad range of grants, services, prizes and payments to professional Canadian artists and arts organizations.
Thank you to our donors!
Kat Sparks, Harvey and Kathleen Guion, Kris Larson, Touchstone Theatre, Lee Eddy and Macon Blair, Kalli Angel, Roberto Benavidez, Will Dibrell, Tirsa Ramos, Erik Secrest, Rob Jacques and Nitra Gutierrez, Rene Quiñones, Heather Hanna, Jay Byrd, Emilio Englade, Hilah Johnson, Laura Freeman, Natalie Vallot, Laurel Hilton, Yebuny Clark, Emily Zartman, Chris Krejci and Derek Mudd, Anna Nuttall, Andrés Quiñones, Nick Smith, Derek Rosenstrauch, Ashley Pearce, Jason Hays, JoAnn and Rupert Reyes, Stephen Heatley, Edgar Quiñones, Elle Mahoney, Katherine Hodges, Travis Hale, Frank, Leah Moss, El Casinader, Jacob Childress, Michael Joplin, Maria DuMond, Adrienne Dawes, Megan, Tamara Goheen, Rae Comeau, Heidi Taylor, Florinda Bryant, Jessica Gardiner, PJ Raval and Curran Nault, Eric Roach, Julia Henderson, Melba Martinez, Zuleyka Mendoza, Zac Crofford, Daniel Alexander Jones, Carrie Jakob, Eli Young, Lauren Dreyer, Annie McCall, Henna Chou, Sid Napier, Josh Meyer, Graham Reynolds, Sarah Saltwick, Erin Randall, Gwendolyn Barclay, Angelica Mcauley, Scott Roskilly, Elaine Holton, Adrienne Sneed, Chelsea Anderson, Julia Smith, Maddie Burns, Lise Wilson, Silky, Jorge Sermini, Edith Nee, Kayla Dunbar, Lucy Miller Downing, Kate Taylor, Kaci Danger, Cyndi Williams, Tamara Ramos, and Melicia Zaini.