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Jennifer Le Blanc

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Jennifer has recently performed, instructed students, and directed at Prague Shakespeare Company, and has performed recently at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Pacific Repertory, and San Jose Stage Company.

She originated the roles of Alice and Susannah in Lauren Gunderson’s world premiereBook of Will at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Jennifer’s original works and staged adaptations are available on the New Play Exchange:

  • Jane Austen’s  Persuasion - her 2013 award winning world premiere production at San Jose Stage Company directed by Kenneth Kelleher
  • Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders which premiered with sold-out audiences at Pacific Repertory Theatre in Carmel, CA directed by Kenneth Kelleher
  • We Made Bread - a one woman show compiled from the experiences of Kuwaiti women during the 1990 Iraqi occupation, originally produced by the Arabian Shakespeare Festival
  • Winter's Passage - a companion piece to Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale. Winter’s Passage imagines a history before Shakespeare’s story began in which Hermione, Paulina, and Emilia studied science and magic together
  • Seasonal Sweets - a year in the life of a perfectly imperfect family - with dream ballets. Commissioned by Playground SF - available for production 
  • Holiday Happenings - a winter holiday show set in a college town that explores how we're all interconnected, even if we don't know it  - first produced at Napa Valley College, directed by Jennifer King, and available for production

Jennifer is honored to have been interviewed with Lauren Gunderson by Chad Jones in an article named Heart and Mind in American Theatre Magazine (October 2013).

Jennifer received her MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver, Colorado. Jennifer is an Associate Artist with the SPARC Theatre in Livermore  and Prague Shakespeare Company.