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About L.J.
Lindsay A. Jenkins is known as L.J. to her friends and clients. She is a consultant, dramaturg, and educator specializing in creative development, script analysis, and historical and cultural research. For over a decade she has served as a theatre educator in middle school, high school, and university classrooms. It was during her time as a middle school teacher that she discovered her passion for supporting the creative visions of others.
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She has contributed to some of the best new American plays through festivals like the Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Pacific Playwrights Festival (South Coast Repertory). Her work also includes iconic titles, such as the 30th anniversary production of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith at the Mark Taper Forum and the 20th anniversary production of The Brother Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney at the Geffen Playhouse. Lindsay’s dramaturgical portfolio includes organizations of all sizes including the August Wilson House, Cornerstone Theatre Company, and Critical Mass Performance Group. Her work with Naked Empire Bouffon Company (How to Catch a Karen) earned Best of San Francisco Fringe.
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As an Adjunct Professor, Lindsay taught Dramatic Literature at Loyola Marymount University and World Theatre History and Dramaturgy at Pomona College, where she also served as Post Graduate Fellow. As a Guest Artist, she has delivered lectures and facilitated workshops at universities across the country, including Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Louisville. Her support of Kristiana Rae Colon's Tilikum at the University of Central Missouri helped them earn several Kennedy Center American College Theatre Awards including Special Achievement in Overall Production. Additionally, she has presented papers and sat on panels at several conferences including the Black Theatre Network Conference. She is published in Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: An American Musical, where she co-authored a chapter on the “I/Eye of History” alongside performance studies scholar Dr. Jade C. Huell.
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Lindsay’s professional journey spans across mediums. Her credits as a production coordinator include the Netflix sketch comedy show Astronomy Club and NBC’s America’s Got Talent. She supported the research of Costume Designer Charlese Antoinette Jones creating reference boards for the film Judas and the Black Messiah. She is an alumna of Spotify’s Sound Up program, a training initiative for emerging podcast producers. Through this program she developed and produced an original fiction podcast that she hope to turn into a television show.
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As the Founder and Executive Director of Maroon Arts and Culture, Lindsay designs and oversees programs that support the development of new Black theatre and connects Black artists to supportive audiences. In this role, she has produced numerous cultural events, theatrical performances and educational programs including the Juneteenth Jubilee, the Teen Play Festival and the West Coast Premiere of Brothers of Affliction by Paris Crayton III. Through Maroon, she is currently developing an original musical called Sandbranch.
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An addition to being an artist, Lindsay has been teaching yoga for many, many years. She is particularly interested in how movement, visualization and meditation can support creative work. She is originally from Texas where she served as a middle school theatre teacher in Dallas Independent School District. She transitioned to Los Angeles in 2017 where she earned an M.A. in Theatre (History, Literature and Criticism) from California State University, Northridge. She is currently pursing a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from University of Maryland, College Park, though she continues to work on all three coasts and everywhere in between.