Jeanne Sakata
Artist
Theatre: The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep, ACT San Francisco, Berkeley Rep, Northlight Theatre, Intiman Theatre, ACT Seattle, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab. Film/TV: Advantageous (World premiere, 2015 Sundance Film Festival, U.S. Dramatic Competition), The Babymakers, XXX2, NCIS: Los Angeles, Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns, Desperate Housewives, ER, Threat Matrix, Line of Fire, Presidio Med, American Family. Jeanne’s solo play Hold These Truths (2013 Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance): ACT Seattle (2015 50th Anniversary Mainstage Season), PlayMakers Repertory Company, People’s Light & Theatre, Honolulu Theatre for Youth (Daniel Dae Kim, co-producer), Terra Nova Collective, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Silk Road Rising, East West Players. Special honors: LA Ovation Award, Outstanding Lead Actress, Chay Yew’s Red, EWP; Outstanding Artist Award, LA Asian Pacific American Friends of the Theatre; Entertainment Daily Award, Chay Yew’s A Winter People, Theatre @ Boston Court; DramaLogue Award, The Maids; Jeanne Sakata Collection in Library of Congress Playwrights Archive, Asian American Pacific Islander Collection, Washington DC. www.jeannesakata.com, www.holdthesetruths.info,