Jenna is a mixed-race Director and Dramaturg based in Calgary. She is the founding Artistic Director of Chromatic Theatre – a company dedicated to producing and developing work by and for artists of colour. She is an arts equity advocate, an active member of the Consent and Respect in Theatre (CART) collective; a founding member of the Calgary Congress for Equity and Diversity in the Arts (CCEDA); the Vice President of equity, diversity and inclusion for LMDA; and the Board Chair for Theatre Alberta. Beyond the Banff Centre, Jenna has had the pleasure of dramaturging work at the Kennedy Center, Lunchbox Theatre, Chromatic Theatre and fu-GEN Theatre.

Recent Directing credits include: fu-GEN Theatre (Mixie and the Halfbreeds); Chromatic Theatre (Winners and Losers, 10-Minute Play Festival, Cowboy Versus Samurai); Pape and Taper Theatre (Timmy, Tommy, and the Haunted Hotel); and Lunchbox Theatre (我的名字是张欣恩。, Let the Light of Day Through). Assistant Director: Vertigo Theatre (Nine Dragons, Wait Until Dark, The Big Sleep); Lunchbox Theatre (In on It; Book Club; Epiphany; What Gives?!), Downstage (A Bomb in the Heart); and the Tarragon Theatre (carried away on the crest of a wave). Jenna is the recipient of a 2018 Lieutenant Governor's Award for Emerging Artists, and holds a MA in International Performance Research from the universities of Amsterdam and Tampere.

Equity & Diversity in artistic practice.

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