Jack Ferver

{{Short description|American choreographer and performer}}

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{{Infobox artist

| name = Jack Ferver

| image = Jack Ferver interview for Night Light Bright Light, January 2015.png

| caption = Ferver in 2015

| alt = Ferver, a white person with close-cropped grayish hair sits in a white studio smiling

| website = {{Official website}}

| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Interlochen Arts Academy

| known_for = Choreography

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1979}}{{cite web |title=Jack Ferver |url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/jack-ferver/ |website=Foundation for Contemporary Art}}

| birth_place = Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, U.S.

}}

Jack Ferver (born 1979) is an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and professor. They are known for their dance-theatre shows that examine trauma, otherness, and queerness, as well as for their portrayal of a character known as the Little Lad in a 2007 Berries and Cream Starburst commercial.

Upon graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, Ferver moved to New York City and appeared in their first film role in Outside Providence (1999). After acting in film, television, and theater for several years, Ferver began performing their own full-length dance pieces in 2007. Their work with artist Marc Swanson on the performance piece Chambre in the mid-2010s earned a nomination at the 2016 Bessie Awards. Ferver teaches at Bard College and cohosts a podcast about the dance world.

Early life

Jack Ferver grew up in rural Wisconsin, U.S., first in Prairie du Sac and later in Sauk City, where they experienced harassment and bullying throughout their youth as "a little gay kid".{{Cite news|date=May 18, 2012|title=Jack Ferver Tells All|url=http://www.out.com/entertainment/theater-dance/2012/05/18/jack-ferver-two-alike-kitchen-marc-swanson|access-date=February 6, 2022|last1=Portwood|first1=Jerry|work=Out|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528061936/https://www.out.com/entertainment/theater-dance/2012/05/18/jack-ferver-two-alike-kitchen-marc-swanson|archive-date=May 28, 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite AV media |people=Millman, Debbie (host) |date=May 12, 2018 |title=Design Matters |medium=Podcast |chapter-url=https://designobserver.com/feature/jack-ferver/39839|access-date= February 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725183330/https://d.rip/debbie-millman/posts/design-matters-with-jack-ferver-faJYU.html |archive-date= July 25, 2020|entry=Jack Ferver |publisher=Design Matters Media |url-status=live}} Ferver began working with a teacher who was influenced by Martha Graham when they were 13.{{cite news |last1=Gladstone |first1=Valerie |title=Choreographer, artist team up for 'Two Alike' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96381892/jack-ferver/ |access-date=February 24, 2022 |work=The Boston Globe |date=July 8, 2012 |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106156880/the-boston-globe/ N1], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96381892/jack-ferver/ N4]|via=Newspapers.com}} They received a scholarship to Interlochen Arts Academy for their senior year of high school, where they trained and met future collaborator Reid Bartelme.{{Cite web|last1=Perel|first1=Marissa|date=October 6, 2012|title=Jack Ferver in conversation with Marissa Perel|url=https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-correspondence/jack-ferver-in-conversation-with-marissa-perel|access-date=February 6, 2022|publisher=Movement Research|language=en|work=Critical Conversations|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719012751/https://movementresearch.org/publications/critical-correspondence/jack-ferver-in-conversation-with-marissa-perel|archive-date=July 19, 2021|url-status=live}}

Career

After attending Interlochen, Ferver moved to New York City. In 1997, intending to dance and act, Ferver was hired to perform in several commercials as well as for their first film role in Outside Providence (1999).{{cite news |title=Off beat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96382747 |access-date=February 24, 2022 |work=Wisconsin State Journal |date=September 26, 1999 |page=1C|via=Newspapers.com}} Ferver hoped to land more film roles but had trouble finding a talent agent and recalled rejection from casting directors who had trouble viewing them as a young person, despite being eighteen years old when Outside Providence was filmed. Around this time, they began to take classes at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.

Ferver continued to appear onstage and act in television and film. In 1999, they performed in the premiere of Betty's Summer Vacation at Playwrights Horizons. In 2000, they appeared on several episodes of the Comedy Central TV series Strangers with Candy.{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Kenneth |title=Betty's Summer Vacation Packs Up Its Things April 18 in NYC |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/bettys-summer-vacation-packs-up-its-things-april-18-in-nyc-com-81304 |access-date=March 12, 2022 |work=Playbill |date=April 16, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021113744/https://www.playbill.com/article/bettys-summer-vacation-packs-up-its-things-april-18-in-nyc-com-81304 |archive-date=October 21, 2020|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Polly |first1=John |title=Berries & Cream! Little Lads! Remixes! |url=http://www.newnownext.com/berries-cream-little-lads-remixes/05/2007/ |access-date=March 12, 2022 |work=NewNowNext |date=May 4, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312201209/http://www.newnownext.com/berries-cream-little-lads-remixes/05/2007/ |archive-date=March 12, 2022|url-status=live}} Throughout the early and mid-2000s, Ferver performed in theater, film, and television, appearing in plays in New York, Washington, D.C., and San Diego.{{cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Kenneth |title=Everything You Wanted to Know About Male Sexuality Answered in New Comedy, Sex*But, Starting Oct. 10 Off-Bway |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-male-sexuality-answered-in-new-comedy-sex-but-starting-oct-10-off-bway-com-122378 |access-date=May 3, 2022 |work=Playbill |date=October 7, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220503033855/https://www.playbill.com/article/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-male-sexuality-answered-in-new-comedy-sex-but-starting-oct-10-off-bway-com-122378 |archive-date=May 3, 2022|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Rousuck |first1=J. Wynn |title='Camelot' shines in shadows of war, love |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2003-11-22-0311220232-story.html |access-date=May 2, 2022 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=November 22, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624050610/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2003-11-22-0311220232-story.html |archive-date=June 24, 2021|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Hernandez |first1=Ernio |title=Christmas on Mars Lands at San Diego's Old Globe June 3 as Kondoleon Comedy Starts |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/christmas-on-mars-lands-at-san-diegos-old-globe-june-3-as-kondoleon-comedy-starts-com-132942 |access-date=May 3, 2022 |work=Playbill |date=June 3, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423073844/https://www.playbill.com/article/christmas-on-mars-lands-at-san-diegos-old-globe-june-3-as-kondoleon-comedy-starts-com-132942 |archive-date=April 23, 2021|url-status=live}} In 2001, they appeared in the film Way Off Broadway and in 2005 they performed in the New York Musical Theatre Festival adaptation of the film But I'm a Cheerleader.{{cite news |last1=Gans |first1=Andrew |title=But I'm a Cheerleader Comes of Age in NYMF Run Sept. 13–25 |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/but-im-a-cheerleader-comes-of-age-in-nymf-run-sept-13-25-com-127981 |access-date=May 2, 2022 |work=Playbill |date=September 13, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201221016/https://www.playbill.com/article/but-im-a-cheerleader-comes-of-age-in-nymf-run-sept-13-25-com-127981 |archive-date=December 1, 2021|url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=Christmas on Mars program |url=http://pressarchive.theoldglobe.org/_pdf/Programs/2005-06/Christmas%20on%20Mars%20Program.pdf |publisher=Old Globe Theatre |access-date=March 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312205335/http://pressarchive.theoldglobe.org/_pdf/Programs/2005-06/Christmas%20on%20Mars%20Program.pdf |archive-date=March 12, 2022}} With the QWAN Company, which Ferver founded, they created and performed in satirical live readings of the films Notes on a Scandal and Black Swan titled Notes!!! (2010) and Swan!!! (2011), respectively.{{cite news |last1=D'Addario |first1=Daniel |title=Avian Fever: Jack Ferver and Friends Camp Out With Swan!!! |url=https://observer.com/2011/03/avian-fever-jack-ferver-and-friends-camp-out-with-iswani/ |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=Observer |date=March 9, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150309021946/http://observer.com/2011/03/avian-fever-jack-ferver-and-friends-camp-out-with-iswani/ |archive-date=March 9, 2015|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|date=March 12, 2011|title=Spawn of 'Black Swan': A new parody from Jack Ferver's QWAN Company|url=https://www.dancemagazine.com/spawn-of-black-swan-a-new-parody-from-jack-fervers-qwan-company-2306864148.html|access-date=July 10, 2022|work=Dance Magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710195720/https://www.dancemagazine.com/spawn-of-black-swan-a-new-parody-from-jack-fervers-qwan-company/|archive-date=July 10, 2022|url-status=live|first1=Siobhan |last1=Burke}}{{cite news |last1=Furlan |first1=Julia |title='Black Swan' Becomes 'Swan!!!' at P.S. 122 |url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/117514-black-swan-becomes-swan-ps-122/ |access-date=July 10, 2022 |publisher=WNYC |date=March 8, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821033858/http://www.wnyc.org/story/117514-black-swan-becomes-swan-ps-122/ |archive-date=August 21, 2014}}

File:Jack Ferver, Reid Bartelme, Night Light Bright Light, January 2015.jpg

In 2007, Ferver began performing full-length dance pieces with their work When We Were Young and Filled with Fear.{{cite news |last1=Sierra |first1=Gabrielle |title=PS122 Presents Jack Ferver's QWAN Company's SWAN!!! 2/10 |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/PS122-Presents-Jack-Fervers-QWAN-Companys-SWAN-210-20110210 |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=BroadwayWorld |date=February 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710184548/https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/PS122-Presents-Jack-Fervers-QWAN-Companys-SWAN-210-20110210 |archive-date=July 10, 2022|url-status=live}} In the late 2000s, they presented their work at Dixon Place (When We Were Young and Meat), Danspace Project (Death Is Certain), and Abrons Arts Center (A Movie Star Needs a Movie), the latter as part of the American Realness Festival.{{cite news |last1=Sierra |first1=Gabrielle |title=Jack Ferver Presents I Am Trying to Hear Myself And An Excerpt Of Candam Goodbar At PS122 7/22-26 |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Jack-Ferver-Presents-I-AM-TRYING-TO-HEAR-MYSELF-And-An-Excerpt-Of-VANDAM-GOODBAR-At-PS122-72226-20090721 |access-date=May 31, 2022 |work=BroadwayWorld |date=July 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531173724/https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/Jack-Ferver-Presents-I-AM-TRYING-TO-HEAR-MYSELF-And-An-Excerpt-Of-VANDAM-GOODBAR-At-PS122-72226-20090721 |archive-date=May 31, 2022|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Horowitz |first1=Andy |title=American Realness Festival |url=https://www.culturebot.org/2009/12/5158/american-realness-festival/ |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=Culturebot |date=December 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623085423/https://www.culturebot.org/2009/12/5158/american-realness-festival/ |archive-date=June 23, 2021|url-status=live}} As a dancer and choreographer, Ferver has collaborated with Interlochen classmate Bartelme, dramaturg Joshua Lubin-Levy, and artist Marc Swanson.{{Cite news|last=Kourlas|first=Gia|date=May 5, 2020|title=Where Dance Fans Can Escape From Our 'Sci-Fi Horror' Moment|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/arts/dance/reid-bartelme-jack-ferver-podcast.html|access-date=February 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520213525/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/arts/dance/reid-bartelme-jack-ferver-podcast.html|archive-date=May 20, 2020|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Barker |first1=Jeremy M. |title=Prelude.12: An Interview with Jack Ferver & Josh Lubin-Levy |url=https://www.culturebot.org/2012/10/14708/prelude-12-an-interview-with-jack-ferver-josh-lubin-levy/ |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=Culturebot |date=October 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508082211/https://www.culturebot.org/2012/10/14708/prelude-12-an-interview-with-jack-ferver-josh-lubin-levy/ |archive-date=May 8, 2021|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Gaertner Gerbracht |first1=Kerry |title=A Dance Pairs Jean Genet and Lady Gaga |url=https://hyperallergic.com/239016/a-dance-pairs-jean-genet-and-lady-gaga/ |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=Hyperallergic |date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113173811/https://hyperallergic.com/239016/a-dance-pairs-jean-genet-and-lady-gaga/ |archive-date=January 13, 2022|url-status=live}}{{Cite journal|last1=Franko|first1=Mark|date=2013|title=Ferver Between Fear and Hope|journal=PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art|volume=35|issue=1|pages=58–63|doi=10.1162/PAJJ_a_00125|jstor=26376117|s2cid=57566380 }} Chambre, one of Ferver's pieces with Swanson, was nominated in 2016 for a Bessie Award.{{cite news |last1=Shaw |first1=Helen |title=Dance, Dance, Revolution: Bessie Awards name the 2016 nominees |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/dance-dance-revolution-bessie-awards-name-the-2016-nominees-071516 |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=Time Out New York |date=July 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503220754/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/dance-dance-revolution-bessie-awards-name-the-2016-nominees-071516 |archive-date=May 3, 2021|url-status=live}}

Ferver appeared as a character known as the Little Lad in a 2007 commercial for Berries and Cream Starburst candies.{{cite news |last1=Nudd |first1=Tim |title=Brief interviews with commercial actors: Jack Ferver on being Starburst's Little Lad |url=https://www.adweek.com/creativity/brief-interviews-commercial-actors-jack-ferver-being-starbursts-little-lad-15122 |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=Adweek |date=October 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170618085322/https://www.adweek.com/creativity/brief-interviews-commercial-actors-jack-ferver-being-starbursts-little-lad-15122 |archive-date=June 18, 2017|url-status=dead}} The advertisement, which features Ferver performing a simple dance while singing "Berries and cream!", spread widely and generated parodies and mashups on YouTube that year, as did a second video in which Ferver as the Lad led a tutorial for the dance.{{Cite news|last=Fuhrer|first=Margaret|date=November 19, 2021|title=The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/arts/dance/berries-and-cream-tik-tok.html|access-date=July 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311081921/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/arts/dance/berries-and-cream-tik-tok.html|archive-date=March 11, 2022|url-status=live}} Ferver briefly revived the character in late 2021 when the tutorial video was reposted to TikTok by podcast host Justin McElroy and the Little Lad's dance became a popular TikTok trend.{{Cite news|date=September 2, 2021|title=How this 'cursed' 2007 Starburst commercial became TikTok's latest trend|url=https://www.newsweek.com/how-this-cursed-2007-starburst-commercial-became-tiktoks-latest-trend-1625357|access-date=July 10, 2022|work=Newsweek|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008041844/https://www.newsweek.com/how-this-cursed-2007-starburst-commercial-became-tiktoks-latest-trend-1625357|archive-date=October 8, 2021|last1=Fowler|first1=Kate|url-status=live}}

As of 2020, Ferver taught at Bard College and was also a visiting professor at New York University.{{cite news |last1=Marius |first1=Marley |title=Anatomy of a Play Put on Hold: Jeremy O. Harris's A Boy's Company Presents: 'Tell Me If I'm Hurting You{{'}} |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/anatomy-of-a-play-put-on-hold-a-boys-company-presents |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=Vogue |date=July 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812142817/https://www.vogue.com/article/anatomy-of-a-play-put-on-hold-a-boys-company-presents |archive-date=August 12, 2021}} In addition to their dance work, Ferver has appeared in other movies and TV shows, including Gayby (2012) and High Maintenance (2016).{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Katie |title=Review: 'Gayby' Is A Slightly Amusing Little Comedy About…You Guessed It, Babymaking With Your Best Gay |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2012/10/review-gayby-is-a-slightly-amusing-little-comedy-about-you-guessed-it-babymaking-with-your-best-gay-105120/ |access-date=March 12, 2022 |work=IndieWire |date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303175654/https://www.indiewire.com/2012/10/review-gayby-is-a-slightly-amusing-little-comedy-about-you-guessed-it-babymaking-with-your-best-gay-105120/ |archive-date=March 3, 2021|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Russell |first1=John |title=Exclusive: Colby Keller On Stripping Down On The Set Of HBO's 'High Maintenance' |url=https://www.queerty.com/exclusive-colby-keller-stripping-set-hbos-high-maintenance-20160918 |access-date=May 2, 2022 |work=Queerty |date=September 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006233710/https://www.queerty.com/exclusive-colby-keller-stripping-set-hbos-high-maintenance-20160918 |archive-date=October 6, 2020|url-status=live}} Ferver choreographed and appeared as Tinker Bell in Bard College's 2018 production of Leonard Bernstein's musical Peter Pan.{{cite journal |last1=Edgecomb |first1=Sean F. |title=Queer Rurality and the Closet Door Ajar on the Contemporary American Stage |journal=Theatre Journal |date=2021 |volume=73 |issue=1 |pages=37–59 |doi=10.1353/tj.2021.0004|s2cid=234168653 }} They also signed on in 2019 to choreograph Jeremy O. Harris's play A Boy's Company Presents: 'Tell Me If I'm Hurting You', but the show was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ferver and Bartelme, who had both been fellows at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, began hosting the podcast What's Going On with Dance and Stuff in 2017, with a consistent rule of releasing an episode every Friday.{{Cite news|url=https://www.dancemagazine.com/top-dance-podcast-picks-2639789589.html|title=What to Listen to: Our Top 3 Dance Podcast Picks|date=August 17, 2019|work=Dance Magazine|access-date=February 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128175427/https://www.dancemagazine.com/top-dance-podcast-picks/|archive-date=January 28, 2022|url-status=live|last1=Shadle|first1=Caroline}} Topics discussed, which often tend to be "more about the 'stuff' than the 'dance,'" according to Dance Magazine, include contemporary dance performances, books, Martha Graham, astrology, and Ferver and Bartelme's own work.

Style

Ferver is most known for their dance-theatre shows that examine trauma, otherness, and queerness.{{Cite news|last=Barone|first=Joshua|date=December 19, 2017|title=Gibney Dance Expands Its Residency Program|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/arts/dance/gibney-dance-jack-ferver-alice-sheppard.html|access-date=July 22, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031203415/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/arts/dance/gibney-dance-jack-ferver-alice-sheppard.html|archive-date=October 31, 2018}} In interviews, Ferver has cited Martha Graham and her autobiography Blood Memory as a particular influence in their exploration of concepts like "contraction and release", dark facets of the human psyche, as well as ritual and repetition. Expression of gender and sexuality are central themes throughout Ferver's work. Their piece Two Alike, described as a "psycho-sexual semi-autobiographical choreographic piece" explored their childhood through repetition. In Everything Is Imaginable, Ferver choreographed four soloists to "collectively exhume their personal queer histories and celebrate their childhood icons."{{cite news |last1=Talijancic |first1=Ivan |title=Jack Ferver with Ivan Talijancic |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2018/05/dance/JACK-FERVER-with-Ivan-Talijancic |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=The Brooklyn Rail |date=May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917211055/https://brooklynrail.org/2018/05/dance/JACK-FERVER-with-Ivan-Talijancic |archive-date=September 17, 2021|url-status=live}}

Personal life

In 2008, Ferver lived in Brooklyn, New York. Their partner is filmmaker and artist Jeremy Jacob.{{cite news |last1=Shadle |first1=Caroline |title=Jeremy Jacob Explores the Choreography of Filmmaking |url=https://www.dancemagazine.com/dance-filmmakers/ |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=Dance Magazine |date=July 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228023941/https://www.dancemagazine.com/dance-filmmakers/ |archive-date=December 28, 2021|url-status=live}}

Performances

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2007

| When We Were Young and Filled with Fear

| Dixon Place

| Choreographer, dancer

|

2008

| Meat: A Diptych

| Dixon Place

| Choreographer, dancer

|

rowspan="2"| 2009

| Death Is Certain

| Danspace Project

| Choreographer, dancer

|

A Movie Star Needs a Movie

| Abrons Arts Center

| Choreographer, dancer

|

2010

| Rumble Ghost

| Performance Space 122

| Writer, choreographer, dancer

|{{cite news |last1=Kourlas |first1=Gia |title=Laughing and Crying at Ghosts, Fictive and Real |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/arts/dance/11ghost.html |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=December 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617091237/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/arts/dance/11ghost.html |archive-date=June 17, 2022|url-status=live}}

rowspan="2"| 2011

| Two Alike

| Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

| Writer, choreographer, dancer

|{{cite news |last1=Flores Alvarez |first1=Olivia |title=Jack Ferver & Marc Swanson: Two Alike |url=https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/jack-ferver-and-marc-swanson-two-alike-6591056 |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=Houston Press |date=September 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703161921/https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/jack-ferver-and-marc-swanson-two-alike-6591056 |archive-date=July 3, 2022|url-status=live}}

Me, Michelle

| Museum of Arts and Design

| Choreographer, dancer

|{{cite news |last1=La Rocco |first1=Claudia |title=Two Performa 11 Duets, Distinct Yet Conversant in Their Shared Themes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/arts/dance/performa-11s-me-michelle-and-antigone-jr-review.html |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=November 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617063816/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/arts/dance/performa-11s-me-michelle-and-antigone-jr-review.html |archive-date=June 17, 2022|url-status=live}}

2012

| Mon, Ma, Mes

| French Institute Alliance Française

| Creator, performer

|{{cite news |last1=La Rocco |first1=Claudia |title=Telling Almost All, and With a Wink |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/dance/jack-fervers-mon-ma-mes-at-le-skyroom.html |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617033056/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/dance/jack-fervers-mon-ma-mes-at-le-skyroom.html |archive-date=June 17, 2022|url-status=live}}

2013

| All of a Sudden

| Abrons Arts Center

| Choreographer, dancer

|{{cite news |last1=Seibert |first1=Brian |title=A Meeting of Two Elizabeths, Not at All Related |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/dance/all-of-a-sudden-by-jack-ferver-at-abrons-arts-center.html |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=May 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617010707/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/dance/all-of-a-sudden-by-jack-ferver-at-abrons-arts-center.html |archive-date=June 17, 2022|url-status=live}}

2014

| Chambre

| Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

| Choreographer, dancer

|{{cite news |last1=Burke |first1=Siobhan |title=Visual Arts Come to the Theater as Genres Blend and Bend |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/arts/dance/jack-ferver-and-ralph-lemon-at-the-fisher-center-at-bard.html |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=November 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616163620/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/arts/dance/jack-ferver-and-ralph-lemon-at-the-fisher-center-at-bard.html |archive-date=June 16, 2022|url-status=live}}

2015

| Night Light Bright Light

| Abrons Arts Center

| Choreographer, dancer

|{{cite news |last1=Seibert |first1=Brian |title=Anguish, Wackily Recalled |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/arts/dance/jack-fervers-night-light-bright-light.html |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=January 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616162001/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/arts/dance/jack-fervers-night-light-bright-light.html |archive-date=June 16, 2022|url-status=live}}

2016

| I Want You to Want Me

| The Kitchen

| Writer, choreographer, dancer

|{{cite news |last1=Seibert |first1=Brian |title=Review: An Innocent Abroad (Beware the Boss's Bite) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/arts/dance/review-jack-ferver-i-want-you-to-want-me-the-kitchen.html |access-date=July 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=July 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220616132746/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/arts/dance/review-jack-ferver-i-want-you-to-want-me-the-kitchen.html |archive-date=June 16, 2022|url-status=live}}

2018

| Everything Is Imaginable

| New York Live Arts

| Choreographer, dancer

|

2020

| Nowhere Apparent

| New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

| Choreographer, dancer

|{{cite report|title=Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual Report FY20|last1=Murray|first1=Linda|publisher=Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts|url=https://live-cdn-www.nypl.org/s3fs-public/fy20_annual_report_1.pdf|date=2021|access-date=July 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703170741/https://live-cdn-www.nypl.org/s3fs-public/fy20_annual_report_1.pdf|archive-date=July 3, 2022|url-status=live}}

2022

| Is Global Warming Camp? and Other Forms of Theatrical Distance for the End of the World

| Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

| Choreographer, performer

| {{cite news |title=Mass MoCA's fall season includes a massive roller coaster-inspired exhibit, concerts, a world-premiere dance and performance art |url=https://www.berkshireeagle.com/arts_and_culture/arts-theater/mass-moca-2022-fall-season-soccer-mommy-jack-ferver/article_440a78e0-2940-11ed-8835-536e369b7e0b.html |access-date=May 4, 2023 |work=The Berkshire Eagle |date=September 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128224122/https://www.berkshireeagle.com/arts_and_culture/arts-theater/mass-moca-2022-fall-season-soccer-mommy-jack-ferver/article_440a78e0-2940-11ed-8835-536e369b7e0b.html |archive-date=January 28, 2023|url-status=live}}

=Theater=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Venue

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

rowspan="2"| 1999

| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

| Long Wharf Theatre

| Alfred

|{{cite news |last1=Borak |first1=Jeffrey |title=Minor players in Shakespeare tragedy are swept up by life's uncertainties |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100924268/ |access-date=May 2, 2022 |work=The Berkshire Eagle |date=July 3, 1999 |page=C4|via=Newspapers.com}}

Betty's Summer Vacation

| Playwrights Horizons

| Voice 1

|

rowspan="2"|2000

| Black Milk Quartet

| Ohio Theatre

|

|{{cite news |last1=Ehren |first1=Christine |last2=McGrath |first2=Sean |title=NYC's Talking Band Sings Black Milk Quartet Jan. 20-Feb. 6 |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/nycs-talking-band-sings-black-milk-quartet-jan-20-feb-6-com-86591 |access-date=May 2, 2022 |work=Playbill |date=January 20, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302021132/https://www.playbill.com/article/nycs-talking-band-sings-black-milk-quartet-jan-20-feb-6-com-86591 |archive-date=March 2, 2021|url-status=live}}

Dead End

| Huntington Theatre Company

|

|{{cite news |last1=Hartigan |first1=Patti |title=Brave beginning with 'Dead End' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100924630/ |access-date=May 2, 2022 |work=The Boston Globe |date=September 15, 2000 |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106157083/the-boston-globe/ D1], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100924630/ D12]|via=Newspapers.com}}

rowspan = "2"|2001

| Princess Turandot

| Westport Country Playhouse

| Truffaldino

|{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Malcolm |title='Princess Turandot' Opens a New Era at Playhouse |url=https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2001-06-11-0106110332-story.html |access-date=May 2, 2022 |work=Hartford Courant |date=June 11, 2001 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220503014332/https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2001-06-11-0106110332-story.html |archive-date=May 3, 2022|url-status=live}}

The Square Root of Minus One

| Market Theater

| Wiggins

|{{cite web |last1=Stark|date=2001 |first1=Larry |title='What Happened in Boston, Willie' |url=http://www.theatermirror.com/sromomtls.htm |website=The Theater Mirror |access-date=May 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120064910/http://www.theatermirror.com/sromomtls.htm |archive-date=November 20, 2006 |url-status=live}}

2003

| Camelot

| Arena Stage

| Mordred

|

2004

| Sex*But

| Belt Theater

|

|

2005

| But I'm a Cheerleader

| Theatre at Saint Clements

| Joel

| Part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival

2006

| Christmas on Mars

| Old Globe Theatre

| Nissim

|

2010

| Notes!!!

| –

|

| Staged reading, with QWAN Company

2011

| Swan!!!

| Performance Space 122

| Lily

| Staged reading, with QWAN Company{{cite news |last1=Healy |first1=Patrick |title=Those Crazy Swans |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/theater/14arts-THOSECRAZYSW_BRF.html |access-date=July 10, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=February 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617082542/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/theater/14arts-THOSECRAZYSW_BRF.html |archive-date=June 17, 2022|url-status=live}}

2018

| Peter Pan

| Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

| Tinker Bell; choreographer

|{{cite news |last1=Hetrick |first1=Adam |title=Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan Will Be Reinvented at Bard |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/leonard-bernsteins-peter-pan-will-be-reinvented-at-bard |access-date=May 3, 2022 |work=Playbill |date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201153347/https://www.playbill.com/article/leonard-bernsteins-peter-pan-will-be-reinvented-at-bard |archive-date=December 1, 2020|url-status=live}}

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1999

| Outside Providence

| Irving "Jiz" Waltham

|{{cite news |last1=Carroll |first1=Matt |title=Farrelly brothers succeed with Outside Providence |url=https://www.collegian.psu.edu/arts_and_entertainment/farrelly-brothers-succeed-with-outside-providence/article_862c4131-5667-5b8b-9375-39920156c2bb.html |access-date=March 12, 2022 |work=Daily Collegian |date=March 3, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312202656/https://www.collegian.psu.edu/arts_and_entertainment/farrelly-brothers-succeed-with-outside-providence/article_862c4131-5667-5b8b-9375-39920156c2bb.html |archive-date=March 12, 2022|url-status=live}}

2001

| Mean People Suck

| Jesse Milton

| Short film{{cite news |last1=Bale |first1=Theodore |title=Fall arts faves include collaborative ventures, distinctive operas & a touch of scandal |url=https://houston.culturemap.com/news/arts/08-21-11-2011-season-preview-by-theodore-bale/ |access-date=March 12, 2022 |work=CultureMap Houston |date=August 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312204002/https://houston.culturemap.com/news/arts/08-21-11-2011-season-preview-by-theodore-bale/ |archive-date=March 12, 2022|url-status=live}}

2001

| Way Off Broadway

| Phil

|

2007

| Shortcut to Happiness

| Jabez's assistant

|

2012

| Gayby

| Jamie

|

2015

| Front Cover

| Pascal

|

rowspan="2"| 2023

| Nowhere Apparent

| Dancer, choreographer

| Dance film based on 2020 performance{{cite news |last1=Moen |first1=Matt |title=Jack Ferver Mourns a Lost Generation in 'Nowhere Apparent' |url=https://www.papermag.com/jack-ferver-nowhere-apparent |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=Paper |date=March 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203154537/https://www.papermag.com/jack-ferver-nowhere-apparent#rebelltitem25 |archive-date=February 3, 2024}}

Wüm

| Bennett

| Short film{{cite news |last1=Souter |first1=Collin |title=Short Films in Focus: The Shorts Programs of the 2023 Chicago Critics Film Festival |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/features/short-films-in-focus-the-shorts-programs-of-the-2023-chicago-critics-film-festival |access-date=June 25, 2024 |work=RogerEbert.com |date=May 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230603220454/https://www.rogerebert.com/features/short-films-in-focus-the-shorts-programs-of-the-2023-chicago-critics-film-festival |archive-date=June 3, 2023}}

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2000

| Strangers with Candy

| Jimmy Tickles

|

2006

| Law & Order: Criminal Intent

| Lenny's assistant

|

2010

| The Big C

| Receptionist

|

2012

| Hunting Season

| Nick

|{{cite news |last1=Kramer |first1=Gary M. |title=Why You Should Be Watching 'Hunting Season' (Plus An Exclusive Clip) |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2015/06/why-you-should-be-watching-hunting-season-plus-an-exclusive-clip-215160/ |access-date=May 2, 2022 |work=IndieWire |date=June 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210509052957/https://www.indiewire.com/2015/06/why-you-should-be-watching-hunting-season-plus-an-exclusive-clip-215160/ |archive-date=May 9, 2021|url-status=live}}

rowspan="2"| 2016

| Deadbeat

| Spencer

|

High Maintenance

| Jason

|

Notes

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References

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