David Jenkins is a co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Jobsite. Recent directing credits include PUFFS, The Butterfly’s Evil Spell, The Pillowman, Macbeth, Gorey Stories, and The Rocky Horror Show for Jobsite; Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors for the Straz Center. He has been on stage in recent years in the Nederlander Worldwide/Straz Center world premiere of The Boy Who Loved Batman (Michael Uslan) as well as the Jobsite productions of The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Pato Dooley), Misery (Paul Sheldon), and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) (himself). David also serves as narrator for The Florida Björkestra’s Buffyfest.
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Awards: Best Stage Director (7x), Best Artistic Director (3x). Theatre Tampa Bay Awards: Outstanding Director, Outstanding Featured Actor (2x), Outstanding Sound Design, BroadwayWorld Regional Awards: Best Actor, Best Director of a Musical. David has published articles in the scholarly journals Text & Performance Quarterly, Liminalities and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research.
He holds a Ph.D. in Communication (Performance Studies) from the University of South Florida and an M.F.A. (Acting) from the University of Florida. He also studied with Moscow State University, the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. In addition to his full-time work for Jobsite, David teaches coursework at the intersection of sociology and culture in the USF Judy Genshaft Honors College.
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