Bio:

Jasmine Roth is a director and choreographer using performance to investigate and witness power, agency, healing, and change. Current projects include You on the Moors Now by Jaclyn Backhaus upcoming at Union College, Maybe She’s Born with It developed in collaboration with playwright Jamie Olah, and to build your kingdom of Heaven a new documentary-theatre piece exploring the lives of millennials who were born and raised as ‘blessed children’ in the Unification Church.

As a John Wells Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University Jasmine has been developing a practice of generating new work and adaptations. Her MFA Thesis production was a modern-day retelling of A Doll’s House that explored Nora’s archetype through the performance of gender as prescribed by conservative Christianity. Their new play, Painting Lessons: A Fantasia with my Dying Father, was awarded a developmental grant through the New Hazlett Theatre Community Supported Art Series and produced in the spring of 2023.

Before Carnegie Mellon, Jasmine worked at Arizona Theatre Company for five years serving as the Director of Education for the last two. During her tenure, she founded ATC Teen to provide free, accessible, and equitable theatre education focusing on the empowerment of teen artists, ran a flagship of TCG’s Veteran Playwriting Project, deepened community partnerships, and expanded education programming to adult artists and community members. Jasmine did her undergraduate studies in theatre and dance at Union College, where she graduated Summa Cum laude.

Other directing credits include a workshop of Wicked Bitter Beast(s) by Kira Rockwell, Dance Nation, Vice Wheels and 차’nt (CMU), Co-Choreographer Tanya’s Lit Clit (Experimental Bitch/NY Theatre Barn), Men on Boats, The How and the Why, What Every Girl Should Know (Something Something Theatre Company), Matilda, Macbeth, assistant director on The Music Man (Arizona Theatre Company), Assistant Director on What the Constitution Means to Me (City Theatre).