David M. Jenkins
Producing Artistic Director
Board of Directors – Member
David M. Jenkins [he/him] is a co-founder and the Producing Artistic Director 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.
In addition to his full-time work for Jobsite, David teaches interdisciplinary coursework in the Judy Genshaft Honors College at USF. Recent directing credits: Hamlet, Dracula, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Romeo & Juliet, Shockheaded Peter, Henry V, Hand to God, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 for Jobsite; Avenue Q, Little Shop of Horrors, Always … Patsy Cline for the Straz Center.
He has been on stage in recent years in MISERY (Paul Sheldon), DOUBT: A Parable (Father Flynn), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] (himself), 1984 (O’Brien), Cloud Nine (Betty/Edward), A Skull in Connemara (Tom Hanlon), and Time Stands Still (James).
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Awards: Best Stage Director (2020, 2019, 2014), Best Artistic Director (2013, 2008, 2006). Theatre Tampa Bay Awards: Outstanding Director (2017), Outstanding Featured Actor (2017), Outstanding Sound Design (2011), BroadwayWorld Regional Awards: Best Actor (2015), Best Director of a Musical (2014). David has published articles in the scholarly journals Text & Performance Quarterly, Liminalities, and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. 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

Hamlet

Hand To God

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Henry V

HIR

Hurlyburly

Jobsite Theater’s Alice

Lebensraum

Lizzie

Macbeth

Maxwell

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Mindgame

Misery

Much Ado About Nothing

Murder Ballads

Night of the Living Dead

Occupation

Othello

Pericles

Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Playing With Fire: After Frankenstein

Quills

Race

Reasons To Be Pretty

Return to the Forbidden Planet

Romeo & Juliet

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Season Celebration

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

Shockheaded Peter

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
