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bio
Jill Jackson
began her performing career early on when she was pulled out of
her 6th grade classroom and asked if she would be interested in
playing the lead role in the school's production of The Littlest
Angel. That thrill of being on stage began her journey towards a
career in performing. Music stole her heart and she began performing
by singing on stages in TN, CT and AZ. The next time Jill would
stand on stage as an actor was in a 1994 performance of Talking
With, as a favor to her sister-n-law who was producing and directing
the play.
Jill was
living in Arizona at the time and would have to go live in Carmel,
CA to be in the play in which her role was The Handler, a snake
handler from down south in which her prop was Evie, a Ball Python
Snake. Jill and Evie became fast friends and instead of returning
her to the pet shop which had loaned the snake to the Theatre Company,
she bought the snake and the two went back to AZ.
After that
incredible experience on stage, Jill returned to CA four months
later to actively pursue a performance career. She soon was acting
at The Western Stage, a semi-professional theatre company in Salinas,
CA and on the stages of the local theatre companies as well as singing
performances, and instructing children's theatre classes in Salinas
and Carmel. In 1995 she was approached to portray Architect Julia
Morgan for a State Parks function. "Who's Julia Morgan?" she asked,
and the answer to that question has led to the writing of three
Julia Morgan shows that are being performed on the Monterey Peninsula,
San Simeon and San Francisco. Jill has written and produced a one-woman
show, A Long Drink of Silence, which debuted in April of 2000 at
the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel. Then she took it
to Sedona, AZ to see if it would travel well. It did. The show was
accepted into the Carmel Performing Arts Festival in October of
2001.
In December,
2002 she performed her show at Fort Mason in San Francisco with
the Earth Planet Players performance series. In winter, 2003 she
performed , A Long Drink of Silence at The Western Stage for their
one-woman show series and on April 4, 2003 Jill opens in San Francisco
for a 6 week run at The Shelton Theater, 533 Sutter St (between
Powell and Mason near Union Square).
Resumé
| Talking With |
Snake Handler |
| Dog Logic |
The Woman Cop/Wife |
| Woodie Guthrie's American Song |
Several Parts (3 Solos) |
| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
One of Joseph's Brothers |
| Quilters |
Several Parts (2 Monologues) |
| Jack and the Beanstalk |
Magic Harp |
| A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking |
Hannah Mae |
| Spoon River Anthology |
9 Monologues (2 Songs) |
| Brigadoon |
Meg Brockie |
| Count of Monte Cristo |
Carcount |
| Movie Classics (World Premier, Play with music) |
5 men's parts (2 solos) |
| Always, Patsy Cline |
Louise |
| Sylvia |
Sylvia |
| The Shadowbox |
Felicity |
| The Laramie Project |
9 parts (2 men & 7women) |
| The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the
Universe |
All parts |
| Parallel Lives, The Kathy and Mo Show |
14 parts
(men, women & children) |
| The Vagina Monologues |
The Woman Who Liked To
Make Vaginas Happy (the Moaner) & The Little Coochie
Snorcher That Could |
| Second Nature (World Premier) |
2 Monologues |
One-eyed Charley, The Wildest Western Tale (World
Premier one person show) |
Charley Parkhurst |
| Lettice & Lovage |
Lottie Shurn |
I also portray Julia Morgan, Architect on an on-going basis around
the Peninsula, in San Simeon and San Francisco
For information about or to be on a mailing list for performances
send
inquiries to
Jill
Jackson
P.O. Box 52191
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
mjillj@yahoo.com
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