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Jill Pangallo

is an actor, writer, and producer living and working in New York City. Her multidisciplinary body of work includes solo performance, stand-up, performance art, alternative cabaret, movement, digital content, theater, TV and film.

Jill’s current projects include Swallows, a one-act dramedy premiering Spring 2025, and a Reid Pope short film, premiering at NewFest 36, this October.

She recently completed costume and production design for Cate School’s spring 2024 production of Wizard of Oz. Other recent projects include Jane Johnson for the Stay at Home Shopper, a live show, pilot, and social media project in collaboration with comedian Shane O’Neill and playing Joyce Nawman (alongside renowned performer Mx. Justin Vivian Bond as Sandie Stone) for the London-based fashion house JW Anderson. Her solo show, Low Vibrations, debuted on wildprojectTV as a part of the Followpot series, which she co-produced in an effort to help #SaveWildProject.

Her theater credits include solo shows Mediocre & Loving It (Joe’s Pub, NYC), America’s Single Threat (The Wild Project, NYC), Hope is Expensive (SFX Festival, NYC), Unfollow (Afterglow Festival, Provincetown), Happy Go Sad (DiverseWorks, Houston), Nothing to Display (Dixon Place, NYC), and Let Me Entertain You (Texas Biennial, Austin). She played Dot in Angela DiCarlo’s long-running parody The Mad World of Miss Hathaway from 2010 - 2016 (Wild Project, NYC) and co-created the Jason & Jill: Craft for Your Life! show with Jason Black (Dixon Place, NYC). As one-half of the comedic cabaret duo, the HoHos (with Cathy Cervenka), she has performed at the long-running tribute show Losers Lounge and legendary festival Night of A Thousand Stevies since 1998.

She made her film debut in Hilary Weisman Graham’s feature, I Love My Movie (1999). Over the years, she has produced a wide variety of her own character-based performance videos for stage and screen. She wrote, directed, and produced the web series Your Main Thing. Other video projects include projections for stage productions, music videos, and dance for camera with SKOTE, a movement and performance art duo which she co-directs with Alex P. White

She was invited to create original works for the publications Transgressor, Art Papers, The Destroyer, and Artlies. In 2009 Monofonus Press released both The Collections, her video project with artist Max Juren and the book Let Me Entertain You, which accompanied her show of the same name. Her solo and collaborative art work has been exhibited internationally at, on, and in a multitude of galleries, venues, screens and clubs including Pioneer Works, Judson Memorial Church, The Tang Museum (Saratoga Springs), Diverse Works (Houston), Bronx River Arts Center, Galerie Zürcher, CCA, and the MIX Film Festival. 

As a producer, Pangallo has created and managed productions, events, fundraisers, projects and celebrations for a wide-variety of high-profile private and public clients including the Anthony Quinn Foundation, The Australian Consulate-General, Citibank, C.O. Bigelow Apothecary, David Lynch Foundation, Global Poverty Project, Joe’s Pub at The Public, Kelly Behun Studio, Lower Eastside Girls Club, Mercedes-Benz, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Participant, Inc., Siddhartha Children's School, University of Texas at Austin, United Nations International High School, and more.

She has curated a variety of ensemble performance events including The Way We Were series (Joe’s Pub, Caveat, NYC) and also assists other performers in developing their own solo works including Joe Apollonio’s Joe Apollonio (Joe’s Pub, NYC), Becca Blackwell’s They, Themselves, and Schmerm (Artists Rep, Portland), David Perez’s Looming Dogs (The Brick, NYC), Heather Litteer’s Lemonade (La Mama, Edinburgh Fringe), and Anni Rossi’s Glaciers (wild project, NYC).

Pangallo holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin (Transmedia/Performance), a BFA from Parsons School of Design (Communication Design), and a BA from Eugene Lang College (Psychology). She attended residencies at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Pioneer Works, and MASS Gallery. She has trained at Atlantic Acting School, General Assembly, and UCB. She has been awarded grants from the University of Texas, The Idea Fund, City of Austin’s Art in Public Places and Foundation for Contemporary Arts.