Jenna Rodgers
Jenna (she/her) is a mixed-race, Treaty 7- based dramaturg and director. She is the dramaturg for the Playwrights Lab at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Board Co-Chair for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and the Director of Theatre Alberta’s Artstrek program. She was the founding Artistic Director for Chromatic Theatre — a company dedicated to developing and producing work by and for artists of colour. Jenna is a recipient of Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize. She is a passionate advocate for equity in the arts, a fierce supporter of new play development, and is learning to raise small responsible humans while maintaining a career in the arts.
Recent directing credits include Smoke for Tiny Bear Jaws (Sterling Award for Outstanding Indie Production), Teenage Dick and Undressed at Alberta Theatre Projects, Little Women at Theatre Calgary, Hookman and The Green Line for Chromatic Theatre, Sherlock Holmes at the Vanishing Thimble at Vertigo Theatre, and Mary’s Wedding at the Citadel Theatre.
Jenna is a graduate of the NTS Artistic Leadership Residency (2020), the Banff Centre’s Cultural Leadership Program (2019), and a member of the artEquity National Facilitator Training cohort (2018). She holds a MA in International Performance Research from the universities of Amsterdam and Tampere.
