Jennifer King is Executive/Artistic Director of Sonoma County Repertory Theatre in Sebastopol, CA. Prior to the Rep, she served as Director of Artistic Learning for the California Shakespeare Theatre (Cal Shakes).During her tenure at Cal Shakes, year round classes tripled in enrollment and the student matinee program increased over 75%. She also developed education partnerships with schools in Berkeley, Orinda, Richmond and Pinole, directed the Student Company production of Much Ado About Nothing ,and launched a Pre-College Shakespeare program.

Before Cal Shakes, Ms.King served as Director of Education and Community Programs for the Dallas Theatre Center (DTC). While at DTC, she was awarded a 2001 TCG Observership grant. As an actor, she has appeared in Arms and the Man , Talley’s Folly , A Streetcar Named Desire , The Turn of the Screw , Sylvia , A Shayna Maidel , Hay Fever , Twelfth Night , Othello , Crimes of the Heart , The Glass Menagerie , and The Sisters Rosensweig . Her directing credits include Agnes of God , Barrymore , A Christmas Carol , Vinegar Tom , The Laramie Project , All in the Timing , Cyrano! , Our Country’s Good , Steel Magnolias , Ralph Roister Doister , The Adding Machine and Two Rooms. Ms. King is on faculty at Napa Valley College and the University of California, Davis, and serves on the Theater Services Committee for Theatre Bay Area, the California Shakespeare Theatre Advisory Board, and is Vice Chairman of the North Bay Theater Group.