Jenifer King, Acting Instructor

Jenifer King has been teaching drama, music and dance to kids from 3-50 since 1985 in New York and the Seattle-Puget Sound area. Jen has worked with LIT since 2015, and directed the wonderful Into The Woods Jr, Pirates of Penzance, Guys and Dolls Jr., and co-directed/choreographed Sweeney Todd. She was one of the two founders of the Tacoma Musical Playhouse youth program, and has had students on Broadway and in feature films. Jen has been a Master Teaching Artist with the Broadway Center LENS program in the public schools, and teaches workshops all over Puget Sound. Jen is a lifelong triple threat performer and a professional stage manager. She has also been the drama and dialect coach at Gig Harbor High School, in addition to teaching with LIT. In the summer of 2017 Jen moved to Las Vegas to complete a 2-year teaching fellowship with the Nevada Teacher Corps, but will return during the summers to continue teaching at LIT.