Jasmine Jenkinson

Jasmine Jenkinson is a Canadian/Egyptian actor-musician. She is an experienced musical theatre, pop, and contemporary singer, dancer, and she plays the guitar, piano, flute, and mandolin. Jasmine brings joy, imagination, and play to everything she does, and prides herself on being a true firecracker!  

Jasmine attended the Theatre and Drama Studies program (UofT/Sheridan College) and graduated as the recipient of the University of Toronto’s prestigious National Scholarship. Her training focused on contemporary and classical acting technique, camera work, devised theatre creation, and commercial/animation voiceover with Elley Ray Hennessy. Throughout university, Jasmine performed as Lucy Brown in The Threepenny Opera, Lady Margaret in Edward II, and Marc Antony in Julius Caesar. She also devised and performed an original solo play, Valerie Sharp’s Guide to Success, and performed in a group devised piece, Goodness Gracious!, directed by Andrew Cheng and Rachel Blair, respectively. 

Since graduating, Jasmine reprised her role as Lucy Brown in The Threepenny Opera at VideoCabaret Theatre. She performed in First Born Theatre’s new musical Killy Willy, both at the Toronto Fringe Festival and in the show’s remount at The Second City Toronto. She gained on-set experience shooting national and international commercials (BJ’s Brewhouse, Jack Astor’s), and most recently, Jasmine worked as an actor-musician with Smile Theatre. 

Jasmine is also an emerging composer. Her original music placed first in Your Voice is Power, an international songwriting competition hosted by Amazon Music and Pharrell Williams. Jasmine recently wrote, composed, and directed MAYDAY, a musical she is actively developing for professional production. She also music-directed and composed UTM/Sheridan College’s production of Edward II, directed by Melee Hutton. A passionate writer, Jasmine has studied playwriting and dramaturgy under Anusree Roy, David Yee, and Andrew Cheng, and her research and academic writing were recently published in a biographical dictionary studying Refugee Musicians in Canada.  

Always eager to refine her skills, recent training includes: voice with The Singer’s Theatre, dance at Metro Movement, and Shakespeare with Julia Nish-Lapidus and James Wallis at Shakespeare BASH’d. As a queer, BIPOC artist, Jasmine hopes to reflect the stories onstage that she wished she had seen growing up, and she is excited to use her talents to make her mark on the Canadian theatre industry.