COURSES
T ART 100: Introduction to Acting
T ART 163: Rehearsal & Performance in Contemporary Theatre
Jeanette Farr, a playwright and actress originally from Turlock, California, is a
graduate of California State University Stanislaus, and holds an MFA in Theatre Arts
with an emphasis in playwriting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her plays
have been produced Off-off Broadway, Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, Singapore,
and Japan. Her work has been recognized by the Nevada Arts Council, The Kennedy Center
American College Theatre Festival, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Her play, Gray Matter is anthologized in Grand Entrance-Scenes and Monologues for
Mature Actors, and Stuffed is published in 35 in 10 – Thirty Five Ten-Minute Plays
through Dramatic Publishing. Other publications include monologues with Smith & Kraus’
Audition Arsenal series. Gray Matter and A Growing Problem are posted on TheatreHistory.com,
and have yielded continued performances at high schools, and forensics competitions
across the United States and Canada. An alumnus of the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting
Intensive (2007), Jeanette of is a member of Lizardclaw Playwrights Collective and
is a features writer for the popular online E-zine, The Loop which reaches over 3,000
playwrights.
Through Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, she has responded to over
150 new plays as a regional respondent, guest respondent in Regions I, II, IV, VII,
Past Chair of the National Playwriting Program for Region VIII, and recently appointed
as Regional Fellow for Region VIII. Ms. Farr has been commissioned by Sierra Repertory
Theatre to adapt Yoshiko Uchida’s children’s story, Journey to Topaz for touring;
her play, Blue Roses, based on the life of Rose Williams won the international playwriting
competition for Prospect Theatre Project, and her play, Pitchin’ Pennies At the Stars
was a finalist in the Mildred and Albert Pinowski Playwriting Competition. Other professional
theatre credits include Properties Designer and Manager for eighteen musicals at Sacramento
Music Circus and Assistant to the Artistic Director and Literary Associate at the
Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. She is currently the Chair of Theatre
Arts at Glendale Community College, Glendale, California where she has produced and
directed a variety of plays including the successful Bat Boy: The Musical, Bus Stop,
and Fiddler on the Roof. In Los Angeles, she has directed new plays including play
reading series for Moving Arts in Los Angeles, and has had plays selected and performed
at the Secret Rose Theatre in the NoHo Arts District.
