Jade Magno McGovern
Writing
Biography
Jade Magno McGovern is a New York-born filmmaker and theatre artist now based in Chicago, Illinois. She is known for her roles in writing, directing, producing, and lighting design for various forms of media such as narrative short films, music videos, devised plays, original musicals, and more. Her style accentuates the Asian-American experience and the psychology of the female mind with an experimental flair. Actively wanting to center and advance the voice of the living writer, in 2022, Jade founded Poor George Productions. Since then, she has collaborated with over a hundred other artists in pursuit to produce work written by living writers.
Known For
On the night of her senior prom, an amateur witch who has never experienced requited love, concocts a love potion to make the coolest guy in school fall for her.
HEXX
A band is split apart when their manager mysteriously dies.
Good Graces
It's spring break for the girls of Alpha Sigma Alpha, and when three girls are left behind to watch their sorority house, it seems about right that the zombie apocalypse hits.
Sisterhood
When an aspiring theatre director meets his "muse," he sets out to write and direct a one-woman show based on the very true story of her extravagant life.
Honey Lemon
In a world where felt and ambition collide, a quirky puppet named Phoebe navigates humiliating auditions to chase her big break on a children's TV show, only to have an unexpected connection force her to confront what it truly means to feel and be felt.
FELT
On his final night in Chicago, a young actor, with the help of his twin sister, says his goodbye to the first city he called home.
Doomsday
Despite being offered the role of a lifetime, a semi-successful actor grapples with his deteriorating mental health leading to an unfortunate pill addiction and disdain for his girlfriend.
Despite Everything
Minutes after the events of “HEXX”, Xavier Bell makes his way to another prom after-party… where he finds himself forgotten by everyone he has ever known: an attention-whore’s worst nightmare.