Jenny King is an actor, writer, and theatre educator returned stateside from London where she obtained her MFA in Acting from East 15 Acting School/University of Essex. She currently resides in NYC, with local housing also available throughout the state of Texas and Los Angeles.
Before hopping the pond, she graduated summa cum laude from Baylor University with a BFA in Theatre Performance and Minor in Dance. While at BU, Jenny found several different outlets for performing - perhaps most uniquely, running around in a bear suit as the university's official mascot Bruiser.
After graduation, Jenny moved to North Texas to teach dance and theatre in the Grand Prairie Independent School District at the primary and secondary levels. During this time she performed in Equity and independent theatres throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
During her time in London, Jenny had the pleasure of working and performing at Shakespeare's Globe and various off-West End theatres throughout the city center. In October 2014, Jenny traveled with her cohort to Moscow where she studied Chekhov and Grotowski at GITIS, Russia's oldest acting school.
Jenny’s play Reconciling has been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and FringeNYC (where it was named a “Best Bet”). It was also the recipient of the 2018 Arts & Letters Drama Prize which led to an April 2019 production at Georgia College. Her short play “You’re My Favorite” was a 2020 finalist in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, making the top 13 selection out of 500+ applications. Find Jenny’s writing on the New Play Exchange.
Jenny is currently writing and auditioning in New York City where she has interned for New Dramatists and served as the assistant literary manager at The Barrow Group. She co-produced The Barrington Collective's Holiday Reading Series (2017-2019) and has served as the playwriting faculty for Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference. Jenny is a staff writer at Reelarc and has written hundreds of reel scenes for actors in NYC and LA.
Jenny is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.
Reviews
Theasy - Reconciling
Broadway Baby - Reconciling
Ed Fest Mag - Reconciling
Three Weeks - Reconciling
Fort Worth Weekly - Bright New Boise
The Column - Bright New Boise
Pegasus News - Into the Woods
Theatre Jones - God's Favorite