Jarvis Green

2022 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts

Jarvis Green of White River Junction is also the 2022 recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. Green is founder of JAG Productions, a Vermont and New York City-based Black theater company established in 2016 in White River Junction. He is the recipient of the New England Theatre Conference Regional Award for Outstanding Achievement in the American Theatre for his work with JAG in its inaugural year. Every year he produces five new plays, nurturing the work of five budding playwrights at JAGfest, one of the nation’s leading incubators of new works by Black playwrights. In 2020, he launched the Black Joy Project, a three-tiered project: a Black Theatre methodology, a play embodying the method, and a documentary film capturing its inception. 

From a five-part short video tribute series created by Willow O’Feral and Brad Heck of Haptic Pictures, honoring each of the six 2022 awards recipients of the Vermont Arts Council.