Brown | Trinity Rep M.F.A. Programs in Acting and Directing

Jackie Davis

Physical Theater

Biography

JACKIE DAVIS (Physical Theater) is an actor, director and choreographer working primarily on the east coast.  Notable directing credits include Ruined, Hairspray, and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf.  Notable choreography projects include The Wiz and Caroline, or Change.  Jackie lives in Providence, RI, and is a teaching artist for Trinity Repertory Company's Education Department and a Master Teacher for their Young Artist Summer Intensive where she teaches Directing, Hip-Hop, and Movement for the Actor.  She is the founding artistic director of New Urban Theater Laboratory, where she produced and directed five years of new works.  Jackie works in all three disciplines- theater, television, and film.  She has most recently seen onstage in Trinity Repertory Company's production of Marisol.  Upcoming film work includes her role as abolitionist Susan Robbins in Colombia Pictures' Little Women, in movie theaters this Christmas.  Jackie is a member of Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild.