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. She is also a lifelong triple threat performer and a professional stage manager. Jen has worked with LIT since 2015, and directed Into The Woods Jr, Pirates of Penzance, Guys and Dolls Jr., Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods (full version), Les Miserables (nominated for two regional awards), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet. 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 an Artist In The Schools with Youth Theatre Northwest. Jen currently teaches elementary school in Las Vegas, and has established a musical theater program and drama club in her school, which has produced 3 musicals and 2 plays to date. Jen will return during the summers to continue teaching at LIT.