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About Janice

Janice Jenkins is Artistic Director of H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players

Jan­ice Jenk­ins is Artis­tic Di­rec­tor of H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players

Jan­ice Jenk­ins was born in Brook­lyn, New York, the fifth of eight chil­dren in the lov­ing close-​​knit fam­ily of Wal­ter and Rose Jenk­ins. She grad­u­ated from Roo­sevelt Ju­nior High School in Long Is­land, at­tended Nas­sau Com­mu­nity Col­lege and trans­ferred to Emer­son Col­lege in Boston where she ob­tained her Bach­e­lor of Arts De­gree Cum Laude in Dra­matic Arts. Bit­ten by the act­ing bug at an early age, her first train­ing came from Maxwell Glanville as a mem­ber of the Amer­i­can Com­mu­nity The­atre. She was also a mem­ber of the 127th Street

Reper­tory Com­pany of the Afro-​​American Stu­dio un­der the di­rec­tion of Ernie Mc­Clin­tock and later joined The H.A.D.L.E.Y. Play­ers (Harlem Artists’ De­vel­op­ment Leagues Es­pe­cially for You) un­der the di­rec­tion of Ms. Gertrude Jean­nette. Ms Jenk­ins has ap­peared Off-​​Broadway and in nu­mer­ous tele­vi­sion shows and films. Her re­gional cred­its in­clude the role of Quilly Mc­Grath in John Henry Redwood’s “The Old Set­tler” at the North Car­olina School of the Arts in Winston-​​Salem and the Barks­dale The­atre in Rich­mond Vir­ginia. She is the re­cip­i­ent of two AUDELCO Awards. The first in 1995 for Best One Per­son Per­for­mance in “In Pur­suit of Jus­tice” by Wendy Jones, a play about Ida B. Wells, the sec­ond in 1998 for Lead Ac­tress in “A Bolt from the Blue” by Gertrude Jeannette.

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