Jackie Apodaca

Jackie earned her MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center Theatre Company and her BFA from UC Santa Barbara. Our Utopia marks her first collaboration with Bag&Baggage. A Professor of Theatre and the Head of Performance at Southern Oregon University, Jackie also serves as the Artistic Director of Ashland New Plays Festival. She has worked as an actor, director, and producer in theatre, film, and media, with companies such as Roundabout Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, National Geographic, Modern Media (Head of Production), Venice Theatre Works (Associate Artistic Director), and Shakespeare Santa Barbara (Producing Director). Jackie is the author of the book Answers from the Working Actor (published by Routledge), and spent more than a decade at Backstage Newspaper, where she was a Contributing Editor. She is grateful to Carlos-Zenen Trujillo and Bag&Baggage for this wonderful experience, and eager to return to Hillsboro in the future!