David M. Jenkins
Producing Artistic Director
Board of Directors – Member
David M. Jenkins is a co-founder and the producing artistic director of Jobsite. Recent directing credits include The Rocky Horror Show, The Smuggler, Twelfth Night, Frankenstein, LIZZIE, Hamlet, Dracula, and Shockheaded Peter for Jobsite; Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors, for the Straz Center. He has been on stage in recent years in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Pato Dooley), Misery (Paul Sheldon), DOUBT: A Parable (Father Flynn), and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] (himself).
Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Awards: Best Stage Director (2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2014), Best Artistic Director (2013, 2008, 2006). Theatre Tampa Bay Awards: Outstanding Director (2017), Outstanding Featured Actor (2017), Outstanding Sound Design (2011), BroadwayWorld Regional Awards: Best Actor (2015), Best Director of a Musical (2014).
He holds a Ph.D. in Communication (Performance Studies) from the University of South Florida (dissertation: Was It Something They Said? Stand-up Comedy and Progressive Social Change), an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Florida, and a B.A. in Theater Performance, also from USF. He has additionally studied with Moscow State University, the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) and the San Francisco Mime Troupe. In addition to his full-time work for Jobsite, David teaches interdisciplinary coursework in the Judy Genshaft Honors College at USF. David has published articles in the scholarly journals Text & Performance Quarterly, Liminalities and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. He lives in Tampa Heights in a neat old house with his rad wife and a mess of critters.
