The Artist
The person behind the plays: the biography, the working method, forty years of credits, and the press record.
Jeanmarie Simpson is an American theatre artist whose life’s work centres women who challenge systems of power: political, religious, and cultural. She is a playwright, actor, director, and educator whose solo and ensemble works explore memory, resistance, and grief.
1982
First professional credit, Camelot
32
Acting credits on the resume
24
Productions directed
13
Plays written
Her life’s work centres women who challenge systems of power.
Three practices, one body of work
Writing, performing, directingWriting
Thirteen plays, four of them gathered in a published collection, most of them grown out of something she performed first.
Performing
Hundreds of solo and ensemble works, from Camelot in 1982 to eight years touring HERETIC.
Directing
Twenty-four productions between 1985 and 2008, and the founding of two companies.
Jeanmarie Simpson does not just expose the experience of life in the military, she humanizes it.Huffington Post
It may be the best one I’ve seen in Nevada thus far.Reno News and Review, on Richard III
A company in Phoenix that amplifies underrepresented voices through live and digital performance, and the home of her recent work.
Founded and led for nineteen years. A Theatre Communications Group constituent company working under Actors’ Equity Association agreements, and the theatre where most of the directing credits were made.
New plays, new productions, twice a year
A short letter when a play is finished, when a production opens, or when new classroom material becomes available. Nothing else.