Theatre
"A killer play,
with a killer director,
and killer performers,
and what you have is one of the best times you’ll have in a theater all year."
BROADWAY WORLD.
Jillian Armenante
Ms Armenante recently directed POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, the season opener at ACT Theatre in Seattle. The play won a Broadway World Award for Best Production and Jillian won Best Director as well as a Sound Onstage Award for Best Production.
She directed and produced a presentation of FRAN & LENI by Sadie Hassler at Dixon Place in NYC.
Ms Armenante worked in Iraq where she participated, with a grant from the US State Department, as a director for the ART OF SOCIAL JUSTICE FESTIVAL and the Iraqi premiere of Heather Raffo’s NINE PARTS OF DESIRE.
In the theatre, she directed a COVID compliant production of THE TURN OF THE SCREW at the Oldcastle Theatre Company in Bennington Vermont. WINNER of Berkshire Theatre Critics Assoc. Award and Berkshire Eagle’s 10 Best shows.
She directed the West Coast Premiere of WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT… by Jackie Drury. The play was LA Times Critics Pick, Ovation Award pick and winner of Best Production in LA at the LA Weekly Awards.
She produced and directed the world premiere of LOVE LOVES A PORNOGRAPHER by Jeff Goode and won a Drama Critics Award and several Garland Awards including “Best Director”.
She also produced, directed and co-wrote LAURA COMSTOCK’S BAG-PUNCHING DOG which received both the Theatre LA’s Ovation Award and the L.A. Weekly Award for World Premiere of a Musical.
She produced, directed and cowrote IN FLAGRANTE GOTHICTO which received the LA Drama Critic Circle Awards for Writing, Directing and Production as well as the Ted Schmitt Award for "Most Outstanding Debut of a New Play". It also won the LA Weekly Award for Playwriting and Comedy Ensemble and Garland Awards for Production, Direction, Writing, Ensemble.
Jillian directed and produced the world premiere GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE, NOS, 21 & 22 by Glen Berger which received a Theatre LA Ovation Award and an LA Weekly Award for Best Production. It was a Backstage West Critic’s Pick, LA Times Critics’ Choice and a Dramalogue Critic’s Choice.
As an actor Jillian’s theatre credits include THE CIDER HOUSE RULES by John Irving, adapted by Peter Parnell and directed by Tom Hulce at the Seattle Rep Theatre, The Mark Taper Forum in LA & The Atlantic Theatre in NYC. For this role she received a Garland Award, a Theatreworld Award for "Debut on the New York Stage" and a Drama Desk nod.
She was an Artistic Director for Circle X Theatre in Los Angeles, where she produced a multitude of award-winning world premieres.
Ms. Armenante was a member of Annex Theatre in Seattle from 1987-1995. At Annex, she acted in, directed and produced dozens of world premieres.
She has a BAPA degree from Middlesex University, London.
She is represented by REALM TALENT & FRAMEWORK ENTERTAINMENT in Los Angeles.
