jASMINE ROTH
ABOUT JASMINE
Jasmine is a John Wells Fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, pursuing her MFA in Directing, and will graduate in May of 2024. In 2023, 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 Micro-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 adaptation of A Doll's House as her MFA Thesis.
Before moving to Pittsburgh, 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.
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.
Her work for the past few years has been primarily on the stages of Carnegie Mellon University (A Doll's House, Dance Nation), Something Something Theatre Company (Men on Boats, The How and the Why), CYT Tucson (Seussical, Beauty and the Beast) and Arizona Theatre Company (Summer on Stage: Matilda, Macbeth, Assistant Dir. Music Man, Veteran's Playwriting Project Staged Readings). As a Teaching Artist, Jasmine has taught both theatre and dance internationally in Cape Town, South Africa and Hanoi, Vietnam, 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 with 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 16 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.
Post-Show Discussion for Painting Lessons at New Hazlett Theatre
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
2023 THE NEW YORK THEATRE BARN CHOREOGRAPHY LAB
Developmental Lab For Tanya's Lit Clit (co-choreographer)
New York Theatre Barn + Experimental Bitch, NYC
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
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
2022 GRADUATE STUDENT ASSEMBLY GUSH GRANT
To support the writing of Painting lessons
Carnegie Mellon University
2018 TUCSON MAC AWARD NOMINEE
Nominated for Best Director for The How and the Why with
Something Something Theatre Company
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
2014 HEDDA HAINEBACH MEMORIAL PRIZE IN THEATRE
Union College, Schenectady, NY
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.