Director

community art installations

shown at Atwater Village Art Walk, Summer Nights on the Boulevard, The Barnsdall Gallery, The

Imagine East Hollywood, picture by LAist

Courtyard Gallery, the Silver Lake Jubilee and the Children’s Festival of the Arts in Hollywood. Cindy is now exploring Shakespeare Everywhere, interactive guerrilla/street theatre to engage and activate her community; she also dreams of art integration in education.

selected directing credits

include PHANTOMS GO DOWN (Bootleg Theater), FOUND ON FACEBOOK (Virginia Avenue Project), IMAGINE INTERACTION (Barnsdall Art Gallery), THE AFTER-DINNER JOKE, a late-night capitalistic happening

Young girl introduced to Shakespeare at an Atwater Village street fair

(A2, The Antaeus Academy), TWO OUT OF FIVE by Jonas Oppenheim, a sight-specific play (MOVEABLE PIECE), MACBETH RE-EX, a year-long workshop of Shakespeare’s tragedy; STAGE DOOR, a workshop of the Kaufman & Ferber comedy (A2, The Antaeus Academy, MONSTERS IN MY CLOSET, a reading for the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute (EAST WEST PLAYERS), VOICES FROM CHORNOBYL: CHRONICLE OF THE FUTURE, BOY GETS GIRL by Rebecca Gilman (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 has sat on the Steering Committee for the Directors Lab West since 2010 and also builds/implements their outreach strategy.

 

One of my favorite round-tables in the 2011 Lab: How the Hollywood Fringe Festival structures their efforts for the individual artists to achieve maximum outreach potential. Jon Armstrong, Meghan McCauley, Kappy Kilburn in back & me.utreach opportunities

Directors Lab West

MY HISTORY WITH THE LAB  Alum 2008 Sub-Committee 2009 Associate Producer & Outreach 2010 Steering Committee since 2011 SUMMARY OF THE LAB For anyone pursuing a career as a theatre director or choreographer, this is the Los Angeles Lab, one of many throughout the continent of interest to you. A chance to meet peers and …

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Phantoms Go Down

Performing at  The Bootleg Theater Sundays through APRIL!

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Banquet Hall in Elsinore, Denmark

Shakespeare Everywhere

Shakespeare Everywhere An experiment in outreach Bringing stories back to the community ~ “Over hill, over dale, Through bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, through fire, I do wander everywhere.” ~  MORE EVENTS Spring 2011. Email to get on the mailing list. PAST EVENTS Personal Statement: I personally grew up going to …

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The Working Director

I  appreciate people who take their careers and goals into their own hands.Working on the Steering Committee of Directors Lab West hands me a unique perspective on the various career paths of The Working Director, and I hope to share that perspective. Submit your Working Director Interview below Remember to email cindymariejenkins(at)gmail(dot)com after submitting, and …

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