JEANIE RAPP
Artistic Director/Founder

Jeanie earned her M.F.A. in acting at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and performed both in California and New York.  Favorite roles include May in The Nibroc Trilogy (New Main Street Theater); Hennie in Awake and Sing! (ACT); Natasha in The Lower Depths (ACT); Ursula in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Blue Light Theatre) and Sarah in Big Train (Adobe Theatre). Film and television credits include the independent film Utopia as well as commercial work. Prior to her acting and producing career in NYC, Jeanie was an assistant dramaturg at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Ma where she worked with Robert Scanlan, F. Murray Abraham, Derek Walcott and Galt McDermott. She was executive assistant to Artistic Director Michael Kahn at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington , D.C.  Producing credits in New York include two highly acclaimed off Broadway productions - Miss Julie (Access Theatre) and the first New York revival of The Kathy and Mo Show (Greenwich Street Theatre) as well as All in the Timing (a benefit for NYC Theatre Art’s outreach program) and she directed a reading of Just What I Meant to Say (Where Eagles Land Theater).  In Connecticut Jeanie launched the play reading series called The Read Thru with her first production company, Queen of Hearts.  Its’ inaugural series was comprised of You Can’t Take It With You, The Women. In 2007 Queen of Heart Productions morphed into a fully operational company, New Main Street Theater. A foreshadowing of that transformation took place in the spring of 2006 when Jeanie staged the premiere reading of Lary Bloom's new play, Worth Avenue. After NMST’s inaugural season in which Jeanie directed Trying on Shorts and produced and acted in The Nibroc Trilogy, her theater company renamed itself Margreta Stage Company.   Jeanie then directed a playreading of The Man Who Came to Dinner.  She created a new playreading series and directed The Farm and produced A Conflict of Fragrances.  She is currently director for Lary Bloom’s newest play Wild Black Yonder.  Jeanie also teaches acting classes at Margreta Stage Studio.