jASMINE ROTH

ABOUT JASMINE

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.