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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