Biography

Jennifer Seigle is a director and physical theatre practitioner who is equally at home in Theatre, Opera, Musical Theatre, and Concert Dance. Stage directing credits include: L'Enfant et Les Sortileges (ASU), Los Coyotes y Las Conejas, Rusalka: The Littlest Mermaid, and Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? (all at Arizona Opera), Lee Blessing’s Independence (Gardner Stages, Los Angeles), and Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Whitmore-Lindley Theatre, N. Hollywood, CA). Choreography credits include: Roméo & Juliette (Arizona Opera), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts), Queen Margaret, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and As You Like It (all at Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Jennifer is also an educator who enjoys working with students to create interdisciplinary works of physical theatre. Her academic credits include her MFA thesis production of Satoh Makoto’s Dance of Angels Who Burn Their Own Wings, serving as director-choreographer for The Pajama Game and Crazy for You (both at Columbia Gorge School of Theatre), choreographer for Bright Star and Sister Act (MCC),You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Long Beach City College), and movement coach for Beth Henley’s The Lucky Spot (Long Beach City College) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (University of Colorado). Jennifer has also created more than 20 works of original concert dance choreography for colleges across Southern California and the Southwest. She has been a member of the dance faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara City Colleges. Jennifer holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a BA in Theatre from California State University, Northridge. Her training also includes study of the Viewpoints and Suzuki Method of Actor Training at SITI Company in New York. Jennifer is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and is currently the Dance Program Director at Mesa Community College. In addition to her work as a creative artist and educator, Jennifer is an experienced arts leader and advocate.