Jennifer Grace received her BA from Kansas State University in
1997. She has been working as a professional actor since, most
notably in a record-shattering run as Emily Webb in Tony
award-winning director David Cromer’s critically acclaimed
production of OUR TOWN, which she performed in Chicago, New York
and Los Angeles, opposite actors such as Michael Shannon, Helen
Hunt and Michael McKean, and for which she was recognized with a
Theatre World Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway debut. Other New
York theatre credits include: NIKOLAI AND THE
OTHERS (Lincoln Center Theatre, world premiere, with
Blair Brown, Michael Cerveris, John Glover and Kathryn Erbe) and
THE 4TH GRADERS PRESENT AN UNNAMED LOVE
SUICIDE (59E59). Selected regional credits: CAT
ON A HOT TIN ROOF, TIME & THE CONWAYS, 4.48 PSYCHOSIS, BALM IN
GILEAD, ARCADIA, JACK OR THE SUBMISSION, THE SEA GULL,
MARAT/SADE, BLOOD WEDDING, and ANGELS IN
AMERICA. Film: I SEE YOU (w/Helen Hunt), THE
CASSEROLE CLUB (w/ Susan Traylor, Jane Wiedlin), KELLY & CAL
(with Juliette Lewis) Television: ”Inside Amy
Schumer,” “VEEP,” “Billions,” “Chicago P.D.,” and “The Red Line.”
She is also an audiobook narrator, VO artist, and a writer. Proud
member of SAG-AFTRA and Actor’s Equity.
Graduate student Jennifer Grace portrays an isolated woman who
creates online videos for children in her M.F.A.
project Joy, Unboxed. The UC Davis Department
of Theatre and Dance presents the play April 5-7, 2021.
Graduate student Jennifer Grace is among the actors, who have
played the iconic role of Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder’s “Our
Town,” interviewed in a New York Times article.
Members across the Department of Theatre and Dance have created
and contributed to the urgent need of face masks during this
pandemic. They have taken out their sewing machines and searched
through their homes for materials in order to make masks.
