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Press

Four decades of coverage, from the Huffington Post and American Theatre to the Reno News and Review and the UK Quaker journal The Friend. Every piece still online is linked below.

Jeanmarie Simpson does not just expose the experience of life in the military, she humanizes it. Huffington Post, on Coming In Hot
It may be the best one I’ve seen in Nevada thus far. Adrienne Rice, Reno News and Review, on Richard III
A grand good time is had by all. Too good to miss. Jack Neal, Nevada Events, on As You Like It
Jeanmarie Simpson in HERETIC, The Mary Dyer Story

The archive

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Tenderness is not what I expected from a play based on women soldiers’ writings. Joanna Frueh
It’s like eating Rankin’s morals and ideals. Miranda Jesch, Reno News and Review
2006As You Like ItJack Neal, Nevada Events: a grand good time is had by all, too good to miss23 Aug 2006
2005Hamlet and Richard III revivalJack Neal, Nevada Events21 Sep 2005
2003King LearMonica Wiant, Reno News and Review; Marla Carr, Reno Gazette JournalReviews
2001Richard IIIAdrienne Rice, Reno News and Review: it may be the best one I’ve seen in Nevada thus farJul 2001
2000HamletForrest Hartman, Reno Gazette Journal: living proof scaled-down productions pack emotional punchAug 2000
The play illuminated dimensions of men’s lives in war and gave perspective on burning issues beyond Iraq. Ford Burkhart, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, on 14 roles of thoughtful anti-war theater

In performance

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Jeanmarie Simpson as Mary Dyer, photograph by Dan Bishop
HERETIC, The Mary Dyer Story
Coming In Hot in rehearsal
Coming In Hot
Jeanmarie Simpson as Anne Hathaway in Shakespeare’s Will
Shakespeare’s Will
Jeanmarie Simpson as Jeannette Rankin
A Single Woman
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Richard III, Nevada Shakespeare Company
Richard III
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Coverage at a glance

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Best known for

A Single WomanToured 53 countries, five continents

Award

Best Theatrical SurpriseSacramento News and Review

Touring work

Coming In HotNineteen women in the United States military

Company

Arizona Theatre MattersFounding Artistic Director, since 2012

I write plays to give serious attention to people, questions and histories that are too often pushed aside. Jeanmarie Simpson
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