DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT | Tomica S. Jenkins

Meet our Chicken & Biscuits Director, Tomica S. Jenkins!


Tomica S. Jenkins is a Chicago-based director/actor/producer and is thrilled to be working with the Omaha Community Playhouse. 

Currently a managerial staff member at Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, Ms. Jenkins spent most of the pandemic teaching acting as a visiting assistant professor at Georgia Southern University in Savannah.
As a director, her favorite productions include School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play (Georgia Southern), The Gospel at Colonus (ACT-Seattle) where she worked as assistant to Lee Breuer, Fourth Date (Chicago Dramatists), the world premiere of Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy (Attic Theatre-Los Angeles) and Clybourne Park (Concordia University Chicago).

Last seen onstage in Boy Gets Girl (Beck) with Saltbox Theatre Collective, her favorite performances include Intimate Apparel (Mamie) and Diva Battle: The Last Audition – a self-penned, cabaret duo act, at Davenport’s Piano Bar & Cabaret. Professional acting credits include April Fools, Early Edition, Family Matters, Moesha and Undercover Brother: The Animated Series.

Tomica earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in theater and radio/television from Bradley University and an M.F.A. in directing from the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts.

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