Jet (she/her) is a transmedial storyteller. Or, in more precise terms: a writer, director, narrative designer, and world builder.
She holds an MFA from New York University's Game Center and an MA in Classics and Ancient Civilizations from Leiden University. She's a pole dancer and aerial acrobat, and juggles roughly a gazillion projects at any given moment. She blends game-based interactive elements with traditional storytelling techniques to develop new narrative forms for theatre and traditionally linear media.
Fascinated by ancient civilizations and storytelling she learned languages like Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, and additionally Old English and Middle High German. Inspired by the wealth of knowledge transmitted by the hundreds of generations of storytellers that came before us, her work combines the ancient with the new and transports audiences through time and space, using history, psychology, and play as tools for self-reflection and empowerment.
She also loves horror and puzzle games and aims to one day release a detective novel.
Jet Vellinga is a lecturer in Games at the University of East London. Before that, she taught at NYU and Parsons School of Design. She also runs workshops and is available as a public speaker, consultant, or freelance writer/director.
Jet divides her time between London, The Hague, and New York.
