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**Jack Ferver** (born 1979)[1] is an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and professor. They are known for their dance-theatre shows that examine trauma, otherness, and [queerness](/source/Queerness), as well as for their portrayal of a character known as the Little Lad in a 2007 [Berries and Cream Starburst](/source/Starburst_(candy)) commercial.

Upon graduating from [Interlochen Arts Academy](/source/Interlochen_Arts_Academy), Ferver moved to New York City and appeared in their first film role in *[Outside Providence](/source/Outside_Providence_(film))* (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](/source/Marc_Swanson) on the performance piece *Chambre* in the mid-2010s earned a nomination at the 2016 [Bessie Awards](/source/Bessie_Awards). Ferver teaches at [Bard College](/source/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](/source/Prairie_du_Sac,_Wisconsin) and later in [Sauk City](/source/Sauk_City,_Wisconsin), where they experienced harassment and bullying throughout their youth as "a little gay kid".[2][3] Ferver began working with a teacher who was influenced by [Martha Graham](/source/Martha_Graham) when they were 13.[4] They received a scholarship to [Interlochen Arts Academy](/source/Interlochen_Arts_Academy) for their senior year of high school, where they trained and met future collaborator Reid Bartelme.[4][5][6]

## Career

After attending Interlochen, Ferver moved to New York City.[5] 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](/source/Outside_Providence_(film))* (1999).[4][7] Ferver hoped to land more film roles but had trouble finding a [talent agent](/source/Talent_agent) and recalled rejection from [casting directors](/source/Casting_director) who had trouble viewing them as a young person, despite being eighteen years old when *Outside Providence* was filmed.[4][7] Around this time, they began to take classes at the [Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance](/source/Martha_Graham_Center_of_Contemporary_Dance).[4]

Ferver continued to appear onstage and act in television and film. In 1999, they performed in the premiere of *[Betty's Summer Vacation](/source/Betty's_Summer_Vacation)* at [Playwrights Horizons](/source/Playwrights_Horizons). In 2000, they appeared on several episodes of the [Comedy Central](/source/Comedy_Central) TV series *[Strangers with Candy](/source/Strangers_with_Candy)*.[8][9] 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.[10][11][12] In 2001, they appeared in the film *Way Off Broadway* and in 2005 they performed in the [New York Musical Theatre Festival](/source/New_York_Musical_Theatre_Festival) adaptation of the film *[But I'm a Cheerleader](/source/But_I'm_a_Cheerleader)*.[13][14] With the QWAN Company, which Ferver founded, they created and performed in satirical live readings of the films *[Notes on a Scandal](/source/Notes_on_a_Scandal_(film))* and *[Black Swan](/source/Black_Swan_(film))* titled *Notes!!!* (2010) and *Swan!!!* (2011), respectively.[15][16][17]

In 2007, Ferver began performing full-length dance pieces with their work *When We Were Young and Filled with Fear*.[18] In the late 2000s, they presented their work at [Dixon Place](/source/Dixon_Place) (*When We Were Young* and *Meat*), [Danspace Project](/source/Danspace_Project) (*Death Is Certain*), and [Abrons Arts Center](/source/Abrons_Arts_Center) (*A Movie Star Needs a Movie*), the latter as part of the American Realness Festival.[19][20] As a dancer and choreographer, Ferver has collaborated with Interlochen classmate Bartelme, dramaturg Joshua Lubin-Levy, and artist [Marc Swanson](/source/Marc_Swanson).[6][21][22][23] *Chambre*, one of Ferver's pieces with Swanson, was nominated in 2016 for a [Bessie Award](/source/Bessie_Awards).[24]

Ferver appeared as a character known as the Little Lad in a 2007 commercial for Berries and Cream [Starburst](/source/Starburst_(candy)) candies.[25] The advertisement, which features Ferver performing a simple dance while singing "Berries and cream!", spread widely and generated parodies and mashups on [YouTube](/source/YouTube) that year, as did a second video in which Ferver as the Lad led a tutorial for the dance.[26] Ferver briefly revived the character in late 2021 when the tutorial video was reposted to [TikTok](/source/TikTok) by podcast host [Justin McElroy](/source/Justin_McElroy) and the Little Lad's dance became a popular TikTok trend.[26][27]

As of 2020, Ferver taught at [Bard College](/source/Bard_College) and was also a visiting professor at [New York University](/source/New_York_University).[28] In addition to their dance work, Ferver has appeared in other movies and TV shows, including *[Gayby](/source/Gayby)* (2012) and *[High Maintenance](/source/High_Maintenance)* (2016).[29][30] Ferver choreographed and appeared as [Tinker Bell](/source/Tinker_Bell) in Bard College's 2018 production of [Leonard Bernstein](/source/Leonard_Bernstein)'s musical *[Peter Pan](/source/Peter_Pan_(1950_musical))*.[31] They also signed on in 2019 to choreograph [Jeremy O. Harris](/source/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](/source/COVID-19_pandemic).[28] Ferver choreographed the off-Broadway musical *The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse* at [Signature Theatre Company](/source/Signature_Theatre_Company) in 2025.[32]

Ferver and Bartelme, who had both been fellows at the [New York Public Library for the Performing Arts](/source/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.[6][33] Topics discussed, which often tend to be "more about the 'stuff' than the 'dance,'" according to *[Dance Magazine](/source/Dance_Magazine)*, include contemporary dance performances, books, [Martha Graham](/source/Martha_Graham), astrology, and Ferver and Bartelme's own work.[6][33]

## Style

Ferver is most known for their dance-theatre shows that examine trauma, otherness, and queerness.[34] In interviews, Ferver has cited [Martha Graham](/source/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.[3] 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.[2] In *Everything Is Imaginable*, Ferver choreographed four soloists to "collectively exhume their personal queer histories and celebrate their childhood icons."[35]

## Personal life

In 2008, Ferver lived in [Brooklyn](/source/Brooklyn), New York.[25] Their partner is filmmaker and artist Jeremy Jacob.[6][36]

## Performances

### Dance

Year[a] Title Venue[a] Role Notes[37] 2007 When We Were Young and Filled with Fear Dixon Place Choreographer, dancer [19] 2008 Meat: A Diptych Dixon Place Choreographer, dancer [19] 2009 Death Is Certain Danspace Project Choreographer, dancer [19] A Movie Star Needs a Movie Abrons Arts Center Choreographer, dancer [20] 2010 Rumble Ghost Performance Space 122 Writer, choreographer, dancer [38] 2011 Two Alike Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Writer, choreographer, dancer [39] Me, Michelle Museum of Arts and Design Choreographer, dancer [40] 2012 Mon, Ma, Mes French Institute Alliance Française Creator, performer [41] 2013 All of a Sudden Abrons Arts Center Choreographer, dancer [42] 2014 Chambre Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Choreographer, dancer [43] 2015 Night Light Bright Light Abrons Arts Center Choreographer, dancer [44] 2016 I Want You to Want Me The Kitchen Writer, choreographer, dancer [45] 2018 Everything Is Imaginable New York Live Arts Choreographer, dancer [35] 2020 Nowhere Apparent New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Choreographer, dancer [46] 2022 Is Global Warming Camp? and Other Forms of Theatrical Distance for the End of the World Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Choreographer, performer [47]

### Theater

Year Title Venue Role Notes 1999 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Long Wharf Theatre Alfred [48] Betty's Summer Vacation Playwrights Horizons Voice 1 [8] 2000 Black Milk Quartet Ohio Theatre [49] Dead End Huntington Theatre Company [50] 2001 Princess Turandot Westport Country Playhouse Truffaldino [51] The Square Root of Minus One Market Theater Wiggins [52] 2003 Camelot Arena Stage Mordred [11] 2004 Sex*But Belt Theater [10] 2005 But I'm a Cheerleader Theatre at Saint Clements Joel Part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival[13] 2006 Christmas on Mars Old Globe Theatre Nissim [12] 2010 Notes!!! – Staged reading, with QWAN Company[17] 2011 Swan!!! Performance Space 122 Lily Staged reading, with QWAN Company[17][53] 2018 Peter Pan Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Tinker Bell; choreographer [54] 2025 The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse Signature Theatre Company Choreographer [32]

### Film

Year Title Role Notes 1999 Outside Providence Irving "Jiz" Waltham [55] 2001 Mean People Suck Jesse Milton Short film[56] 2001 Way Off Broadway Phil [14] 2007 Shortcut to Happiness Jabez's assistant 2012 Gayby Jamie [29] 2015 Front Cover Pascal 2023 Nowhere Apparent Dancer, choreographer Dance film based on 2020 performance[57] Wüm Bennett Short film[58]

### Television

Year Title Role Notes 2000 Strangers with Candy Jimmy Tickles [9] 2006 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Lenny's assistant 2010 The Big C Receptionist 2012 Hunting Season Nick [59] 2016 Deadbeat Spencer High Maintenance Jason [30]

## Notes

1. Denotes the date and place of the piece's world premiere; many of Ferver's pieces have subsequently been presented elsewhere.[37]

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## External links

- [Official website](https://www.jackferver.com/)
- [Jack Ferver](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275202/) at IMDb
- [The Dance and Stuff Show](https://www.youtube.com/) on YouTube

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