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ABOUT JASMINE

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Jasmine is a freelance director-choreographer and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance at Union College. She holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, where she was a John Wells Fellow. 

 

Recently, Jasmine was a New Hazlett Theatre CSA Artist with her new play Painting Lessons: A Fantasia with My Dying Father, a recipient of the Frank Ratchye Further Fund Grant for research supporting the creation of a new documentary-theatre piece centering on the lived experiences of millennials born into the Unification Church, and created a modern trad-wife adaptation of A Doll's House as her MFA Thesis. 

 

Before her time at Carnegie Mellon, Jasmine was an Arizona-based Theatre Artist working as a director, choreographer, actor, dancer, teaching artist, and arts administrator. She was the Director of Learning and Education for Arizona Theatre Company (ATC), for two years after serving as the company's Education Associate for three. In her time at ATC, she founded ATCteen and the ATCteen Council to provide free, accessible and equitable theatre education focusing on leadership, craftmanship and the empowerment of teen artists, successfully ran a flagship of TCG's Veterans Playwriting Projects, deepened community partnerships, and expanded education programming to adult artists and community members. 

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As a Director and Choreographer Jasmine works on both professional and teen productions and loves new works, transforming classics, collaborative processes and bringing an awareness of movement to everything she does.

Pas productions and workshops include Salt, Light Spear, You on the Moors Now (Union College), Painting Lessons: A Fantasia with My Dying Father (New Hazlett Theatre), Tanya's Lit Clit (New York Theatre Barn/Experimental Bitch), A Doll's House, Dance Nation (Carnegie Mellon University), Men on Boats, The How and the Why (Something Something Theatre Company), Seussical, Beauty and the Beast (CYT Tucson), and Matilda, Macbeth, Assistant Dir. Music Man (Arizona Theatre Company). As a Teaching Artist, Jasmine has taught both theatre and dance internationally and in schools and community organizations across the US.

 

As a performer, Jasmine has been both an actor and dancer. She was a company member of the modern dance company ZUZI! Dance, and has acted with Saratoga Shakespeare Company, Winding Road Theatre Ensemble, Something Something Theatre, Momentum Theatre Troupe, 24 Hour Plays, Roadrunner Theatre Company, Solas Nua Boston, and Theatre Kapow. Jasmine studied theatre and dance at Union College in upstate NY, where she graduated Summa Cum laude. She also trained as an actor with New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Apprentice Program, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, and SITI Company.

 

Jasmine grew up mainly in Manchester, NH, but has lived in 17 different homes, 5 states, and 8 cities.

When not near the stage you can find Jasmine pulling tarot cards or tending to her cat and plants.

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Post-Show Discussion for Painting Lessons at New Hazlett Theatre 

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Feedback session with Lawrence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy at NYTheatre Barn Choreography Lab

Residencies &
Comissions

2022-23 NEW HAZLETT THEATRE COMMUNITY SUPPORTED ART SERIES

Commission & Year long residency for Painting Lessons (writer/director)

New Hazlett Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA 

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​2023 THE NEW YORK THEATRE BARN CHOREOGRAPHY LAB

Developmental Lab For Tanya's Lit Clit (co-choreographer)

New York Theatre Barn + Experimental Bitch, NYC

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2022 THE SABLE PROJECT Artist Residency 

Stockbridge, Vermont

Awards &
Nominations

2024 FRANK RATCHYE FURTHER FUND - FULL GRANT 

For oral history research of Unification Church members, for the purpose of creating a new documentary theatre piece

Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh, PA 

 

2022-24 JOHN WELLS DIRECTING FELLOWSHIP 

Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama MFA Fellowship

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2023 FRANK RATCHYE FURTHER FUND MICROGRANT

For oral history research of Unification Church members, for the purpose of creating a new documentary theatre piece

Studio for Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh, PA 

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2022 GRADUATE STUDENT ASSEMBLY GUSH GRANT

To support the writing of Painting lessons 

Carnegie Mellon University 

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2018 TUCSON MAC AWARD NOMINEE

Nominated for Best Director for The How and the Why with
Something Something Theatre Company 

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2015 NH THEATRE AWARDS NOMINEE
Nominated for Best Director of a Drama and Best Production for 
The Diary of Anne Frank 
produced by the Majestic Theatre

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2014 HEDDA HAINEBACH MEMORIAL PRIZE IN THEATRE 

Union College, Schenectady, NY 

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PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN

Senior Thesis Prize for Concubine written and directed by
Jasmine Roth and Robyn Belt

Union College, Schenectady, NY 2014

ARTISTIC STATEMENT

I create enchanting, kinesthetic, tender, and radically cathartic microcosms rooted in the exploration of the mind through the body. I am a director choreographer writer working inside the grooves and alongside the edges of theatre, dance, and film.

 

Everything I make is a fairytale because it is a radical invitation to witness transformation and visualize new futures.  

 

I also make art because it has always been where I feel the most at home when I feel the most me and the most keenly attuned to my agency, and how I experience some mystical sense of spirit. 

 

My life has been full of muddy, sandy, woodsy earth magic, music, crafting, dance, intergenerational community, and constant cycles of death, rebirth and change. I carry those experiences with me in my work through an abundance of exploration, experimentation, and play.
 

I am interested in naturalism in character inside of expansive structures that lean into magic, madness, and mess. I currently focus my work around stories of women because that is where I find myself returning over and over to disentangle themes of Feminity, family, queerness, religion, and control. The task of tugging at and pulling apart these threads allows me to put them under a microscope, interrogate their composition, and weave them into something new.

 

In the room, my work is community-forward, built through a trauma-informed lens, and attention to accessibility, equity, inclusion, and hospitality.

director & choreographer
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