Office Hours
(SPRING 2026)
Monday- Thursday – 11:00-12:00PM via ZOOM
Monday- Thursday – 6:00-6:30 PM
Courses
THTR 107: Drama Heritage: Play, Structure, Form, and Analysis
THTR 160: Rehearsal and Performance in Musical Theatre Production
Jeanette Farr, a playwright and actress originally from Turlock, California, is a
graduate of California State University Stanislaus, and holds an MFA in Theatre Arts
with an emphasis in playwriting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her plays
have been produced around the world including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.
Her work has been recognized by the Nevada Arts Council, The Kennedy Center American
College Theatre Festival, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Her plays continue to yield performances at high schools, forensics competitions,
community and professional theatres across the United States and abroad. An alumnus
of the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive (2007), Jeanette is a proud member
of The Antaeus Playwrights' Lab, The Playwrights Union and the Dramatists Guild of
America.
She has served on the executive board with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre
Festival as National Playwriting Program Chair, Past Chair of the National Playwriting
Program for Region VIII, and honored as Regional Fellow for Region VIII and Excellence
in Theatre Education Awardee for Region VIII and the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion
recipient for 2019. In addition, she has served as a reader for the various awards
through the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards program.
Some highlights in playwriting have included, Playwright in Residence with Tofte Lake
Center (with Liz Engelman), WordBRIDGE Playwrights’ Lab, and Theatricum Botanicum
Seedlings Series; Playwright in Residence with Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA),
Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference. Jeanette has had plays
performed at Actors' Theatre of Louisville (A Growing Problem) and was a Heideman
Award Finalist (My Life as a Circus Baby), and City Theatre, Miami – Winter Shorts
Festival (Fulfillment Center). A Central Valley California native, Jeanette has been
commissioned by Sierra Repertory Theatre to adapt Yoshiko Uchida’s children’s story, Journey
to Topaz for touring; Her play, Blue Roses, based on the life of Rose Williams won
the international playwriting competition for Prospect Theatre Project. Jeanette's
plays can be found at Original Works Publishing, Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus,
10-minute-plays.com, and The New Play Exchange.
Other professional theatre credits include Properties Designer and Manager for eighteen
musicals at Sacramento Music Circus and Assistant to the Artistic Director and Literary
Associate at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts.
She is currently the Chair of Theatre Arts at Glendale Community College, Glendale,
California where she has produced and directed a variety of plays including the successful Motel
Chronicles Series, Present Life (Birthday and Anniversary Plays), Bat Boy: The Musical, Bus
Stop, and Fiddler on the Roof.
Jeanette currently lives in Los Angeles where she has written, produced, and directed
new plays with SkyPilot Theatre Company, Moving Arts, Scribe Stages, and The Secret
Rose Theatre. www.jeanettefarr.com
