About

Founded by Tony-winning producers, Jenny & Jon Steingart, Ars Nova Entertainment produces theater, film, and television. 

Recent productions include Freestyle Love Supreme on Broadway (Special Tony Award) and US Tour; Mean Girls on Broadway and US Tour; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish; and Sir Patrick Stewart's A Christmas Carol. They most recently produced the documentary We Are Freestyle Love Supreme, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is currently on Hulu. Ars Nova Entertainment produced the cult film Black Dynamite and the subsequent animated television series on Adult Swim. Jenny & Jon are the co-founding partners of the Japanese animation studio Ultra Super Pictures (Trigger, Sanzigen, Ordet and Liden Films). 

Jenny and Jon are the co-founders of Ars Nova, New York City’s premier theater for emerging artists and new work. Ars Nova’s renowned writer’s group, Play Group, has included such notable playwrights as Annie Baker, Charise Castro Smith, Sarah DeLappe, Liz Flahive, Amy Herzog, Michael R. Jackson, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Kyle Jarrow, Stephen Karam, Steven Levenson, Matthew Lopez, Carly Mensch, Liz Meriwether, Janine Nabers, Antoinette Nwandu, Beau Willimon and Bess Wohl. 

For 20 years, Ars Nova has helped launch the careers of such artists as Rachel Chavkin, Billy Eichner, Bridget Everett, Sam Gold, Tommy Kail, Dave Malloy, Jack McBrayer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Our Lady J, Shaina Taub, Robin Lord Taylor, Alex Timbers and Bowen Yang.

*While Ars Nova Entertainment is owned and operated by the co-founders of the non-profit Ars Nova Theater, Ars Nova Entertainment is a separate commercial producing entity and the two companies are unaffiliated.