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Jackie Vanderbeck | Statera Ambassador
The Statera Ambassador program began in late 2017. Ambassadors are artist-activists with big ideas. They are an ear to the ground, building pathways for greater connectedness between local arts communities and the national gender-parity movement. You will find the Ambassadors authoring posts on the Statera Blog, presenting at StateraCon, engaging as regional Mentorship Coordinators, serving on steering committees, and consulting on the development of Statera programming. You’ll also find them using their social media platforms to share Statera-related news and resources, which strengthen the collective grassroots movement for intersectional gender parity in the arts.
Photo credit: Justin Patterson Photography
About Jackie (She/Her)
Jackie is the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Sing For Your Seniors (SFYS), a New York-based non-profit organization. SFYS’s mission is to enrich lives through the universal language of music by bringing professional performing artists to the communities of seniors in need to entertain, foster connection and create shared joy. Proudly focusing its service to low-income senior communities, LGBTQ+ elders, veterans, and those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia, SFYS is a six-time recipient of the Quality of Life grant from Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Growing up in California, Jackie spent her summers interning in Outreach and Education for Broadway Sacramento, where she now serves as Director of Community Engagement. In this role, Jackie focuses on accessibility programing for Broadway At Music Circus and Broadway On Tour, as well as Arts Alive, which provides free theatre tickets to community service organizations.
As a performing artist, some of Jackie’s theatre credits include productions at the Denver Center Theatre Company, Pacific Conservatory Theatre, Sacramento Theatre Company, Music Circus, Shawnee Playhouse, Summer Lyric Theatre, Sierra Repertory Theatre, and two concert tours as a soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic in Japan. As a writer, Jackie’s first play with music, “THAW,” with co-creator, George Walker, received two workshops at the Pacific Conservatory Theatre.
Jackie holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Cincinnati - College Conservatory of Music and is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild of America.