Jeanette's Info
Jeanette Knight is an award-winning actor, director, and educator, whose body of work includes over 40 roles and 20 directing credits nationwide, including a stint at the Tony award-winning Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago. She played Louise in “Always, Patsy Cline” at the Indio Performing Arts Center to sold-out audiences. She has served as an artist-in-residence for the California Arts Council, Beaumont Actors Studio, and the McCallum Theatre, where she also was its Education Program Manager for eight years. She has been recognized as a master teaching artist in the field of Aesthetic Education, an inquiry-based progressive education methodology pioneered by the Lincoln Center Institute in New York. She founded Joe & Mustard, the long-form improvisational acting troupe, whose members have been dubbed “masters” of the art form. Some of her proudest accomplishments are the artistic projects she carried out to address violence among teens. Jeanette is part of the theatre faculty at the internationally recognized Idyllwild Arts Academy, one of only three arts-based boarding schools in the United States, where she teaches acting and improv and facilitates improv performance labs.For more info: http://www.idyllwildarts.org
"You are brilliant. Thank you so much for your hard work and patience!!" - Rosanna Lindmarker, Idyllwild Arts Academy
"It has truly been a blessing to be your student...your effort and work has moved something in me." - Viola Hou, Idyllwild Arts Academy
"I definitely learned a lot and enjoyed every single second of it" - Jasmine Lim