David M. Jenkins
Producing Artistic Director
Board of Directors – Member
David M. Jenkins is the Producing Artistic Director and a co-founder of Jobsite. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication (Performance Studies) from the University of South Florida, an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Florida, and a B.A. in Theater Performance, also from USF. He has additionally studied with Moscow State University, the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) and the San Francisco Mime Troupe.
He has recently directed productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Edgar & Emily, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Dancing at Lughnasa, HIR, The Tempest, and The Threepenny Opera, for Jobsite as well as A Tuna Christmas for the Straz Center and Annie Baker’s The Aliens for Stageworks Theatre. He has been recently seen in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised], 1984 (O’Brien), Cloud Nine (Betty/Edward), A Skull in Connemara (Tom Hanlon), and Time Stands Still (James). He was the 2017 Theatre Tampa Bay Outstanding Director, and in 2014 was the recipient of the Best Director Award from CL’s Reader’s Poll and Best Director of a Musical in the BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Awards. He also won the 2017 Outstanding Featured Actor (A Skull in Connemara) and the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional Award for Best Actor (Times Stands Still). Creative Loafing has twice honored him as both Best Artistic Director and Best Actor.
David has published articles in the scholarly journals Text & Performance Quarterly, Liminalities, and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. In addition to his full-time work for Jobsite, David teaches interdisciplinary coursework in the Honors College at USF. He lives in Tampa Heights in a neat old house with his rad wife and a mess of critters.
Jobsite Productions

1984

A Dream Play

A Girl’s Guide to Chaos

A Skull in Connemara

All the Great Books (abridged)

And Baby Makes Seven

Annapurna

As You Like It

Bloody Poetry

Boom!

Closetland

Cloud Nine

Constellations

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dead Man’s Cell Phone

Dog Sees God

Doubt: A Parable

Dracula

Edgar & Emily

Einstein’s Dreams

Eleemosynary

Embedded

Fahrenheit 451

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune

Gloucester Blue

Gorey Stories

Grimm’s Faery Tales

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

HIR

Hurlyburly

Lebensraum

Lizzie

Macbeth

Maxwell

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Mindgame

Much Ado About Nothing

Murder Ballads

Night of the Living Dead

Occupation

Othello

Pericles

Playing With Fire: After Frankenstein

Quills

Race

Reasons To Be Pretty

Return to the Forbidden Planet

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

Silence! The Musical

Sins of the Mother

subUrbia

The 39 Steps

The Beauty Queen of Leenane

The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)

The Complete History of America (abridged)

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)

The Flick

The History of the Devil

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

The Lonesome West

The Maids

The March of the Kitefliers

The Mineola Twins

The Pillowman

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui

The Taming of the Shrew

The Tempest

The Threepenny Opera

Time Stands Still

Titus Andronicus

Twelfth Night

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Waiting on Sean Flynn

We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!

What the Butler Saw
