Cindy Marie Jenkins’s Bio
BIO
CINDY MARIE JENKINS is a freelance director, playwright & educator based in Los Angeles. She acts as Artistic Associate for The Antaeus Theater Company, where she teaches classical theater, and is a Resident Artist with both The Indy Convergence and The Menander Theatre Company. Her adaptation of VOICES FROM CHORNOBYL has been produced in different venues around Los Angeles and productions are planned worldwide every April to commemorate and raise awareness of the accident. She was invited to be a Key Note Speaker at “Remember Chernobyl,” an Annual Networking Conference for UK & Irish Chernobyl Charities, where the Demo premiered and the VFC Anniversary Readings launched. She runs an ongoing workshop of MACBETH in Los Angeles, called MACBETH RE-EXplore for the re-exploration they do at every meeting. She frequently coaches through coaxing: both for writers and actors.
Recent directing credits include: THE UMBRELLA PROJECT at The Indy Convergence 2009 (co-directed with Robert Negron, Artistic Director), STAGE DOOR (a staged reading at The Antaeus Academy), MONSTERS IN THE CLOSET (a reading at East West Players), VOICES FROM CHORNOBYL: CHRONICLE OF THE FUTURE (various in L.A., Indianapolis), BOY GETS GIRL by Rebecca Gilman at the Attic Theatre, Stephen Sondheim’s ASSASSINS with Sight Unseen, JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR by Kitty Felde for Towne Street Theatre, FOE PA:EPISODE 6 performed at the Fountain Theatre, & PHILOKTETES at the Open Fist Theatre. Cindy graduated from NYU’s Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and directed many works in New York, including MISSING SOMETHING by Stephen A. Fulchino, ANTIGONE & THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE by Brecht, and THE LAST HOUR by Donald Breckenridge.
She was the Dramaturg for TROILUS & CRESSIDA & also assistant ROVER & MEDEA at the Antaeus Company Classics Fest 08. Other dramaturgy includes NATURAL SELECTION with needtheater, JULIUS CAESAR, directed by Karesa McElheny at Knightsbridge Theatre, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA with Odyssey Theatre in Brooklyn, CAFE CANTANTES: LORCA’S POET IN NEW YORK and HAMLET, both directed by Karin Coonrod. New play development includes VENICE: the Musical by G.F. Mlely about the displacement of the homeless in our society, plus NEOPTOLEMUS, MISSING
SOMETHING & EVERYTHING & NOTHING by Stephen A. Fulchino.
She has adapted many stories to the stage, including KING ARTHUR for children. Other playwrighting includes: LEGITIMATE BASTARDS: A MORE CONSIDERED BELIEF (an adaptation of at-risk stories and KING LEAR), SAFE HAVEN, THE GREEK CYCLE: ONE TRUE GODS, as well as a collection of short stories and poetry devoted to the tricks that memory plays on us. Cindy is collaborating with musician Stephen GC on THE SONG OF ISADORA, (former title: TEN), a musical challenging one’s individual worth in times of war; a workshop production was presented in March 2008, and segments of the play were performed among the Arlington West Vets For Peace Iraq war memorial. She was invited by E.M. Lewis to speak on a panel, the first installment of the War
Plays Project.
Cindy graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a major in Drama Direction & Design, and was on a Planning Sub-Committee for the 2009 Directors Lab West and was accepted into the Unusual Suspects Teaching Artist Training in September 2008.
April 15, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Good stuff. I’d like to work with you one day.