Parker Jenkins

Actor | Director | Writer | Lighting Designer | Researcher

Bridging theatre and science, one stage and screen at a time.

Who am I? If I had to boil it down to one word, I’m a storyteller—as plainly as I can state it.

Stories are what bring us together; they allow us to speak about our dreams, fears, hopes, relationships, and the lives we aspire to lead one day. They connect us all, in one way or another. They’ve carried humanity from our earliest points of evolution around campfires to modern-day dinner tables and beyond. They’re what I want to tell onstage, what I want to write, what I want to direct, what I want to read.

With my backgrounds in chemical neuroscience and psychology, as well as my experiences in performance art, lighting design, and theatrical writing, I find excitement blending my experiences in neuropsychology, art, and science into theatre that encapsulates and highlights the emotions—the stories—that make us human: put centerstage for all to see.

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” ~Cesar A. Cruz