Jill Pangallo is an actor, writer, and producer. Her multidisciplinary body of work includes solo performance, stand-up, performance art, dance, digital content, theater, TV and film.

Based in New York City, Jill has performed and shown internationally at a heaping buffet of galleries and venues, on a multitude of screens and channels, and in dozens of clubs — including Joe’s Pub, Pioneer Works, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, MTV, Judson Memorial Church, The Bell House, The Tang Museum, Bowery Ballroom, Diverse Works (Houston), Regina Rex, Bronx River Arts Center, and NewFest.

Her decades-long practice includes seven full-length solo shows, web-based projects (JW Anderson’s JWA‑TV, Your Main Thing, forthcoming Blind Contour), a recent Reid Pope film, long-running collaborations (Jane Johnson, The HoHos, Jason & Jill), curatorial projects (The Way We Were, Followspot), and a visual arts movement-duo with artist Alex P. White as SKOTE. In the spring of 2025, at La MaMa ETC, she premiered Swallows, a NYSCA-supported, seven-actor play she wrote, co-produced, and fully fund-raised. 

Rooted in a lineage of DIY, alt cabaret, and nightlife aesthetics, Jill Pangallo’s work values risk, resourcefulness, and an openness to imperfection. Across projects, she explores questions of identity, visibility, and belonging, using humor as both an entry point and an equalizer, transforming discomfort into connection and revealing truth through laughter.

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 Skowhegan, Pioneer Works, and MASS Gallery. She has trained at UCB, Atlantic Acting School, and General Assembly. She is a NYSCA FY2025 grantee and has been awarded grants from The Idea Fund, City of Austin’s Art in Public Places, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the University of Texas.