Biography

Jennifer was a child actor with the Portland, Oregon based Children's Theater group, The Playbox Players, and performed small roles in creative and commercial film and television projects. She studied theater and dance at Portland's renowned Jefferson High School for Performing Arts, where she received dance awards and scholarships. As a full time dancer, she performed as principle dancer and soloist with Portland and San Francisco based dance companies and choreographers for the next 20 years.

In the early aughts she was featured in Nashville productions of "The Vagina Monologues" and Clare Booth Luce's "The Women". She won Tennie Awards for both roles. She played Mrs. Barker in Edward Albee's "The American Dream", Sandra Markowitz in Herb Gardner's "A Thousand Clowns" for Marin Classic Theatre in the San Francisco Bay Area, and starred in Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year" at the Playhouse Theatre in San Francisco's Union Square Theatre District, garnering excellent reviews for all.

Jennifer participated as actor, dancer, and writer for various independent film production houses including the sci-fi horror romance "Ratstar", "Solitude", an award winning short at the San Jose 48 hour film project, "Divine Unrest" for Tamarack Road Productions, "Screamplay" for Gary Adams Productions, and "Under One Sun" for Aisha Media. She was a producer on Filament Features' documentary "The Plastic People", narrated by Edward James Olmos, now available on Amazon. She has several writing projects in development with her husband, Joe Gayton, co-creator of AMC's "Hell On Wheels".

Television credits include several episodes of the Japanese re-enactment show, "The World's Astonishing News" (or "Sekai Gyoten News"), as well as the internet drama series, "No Strings Attached".

Jennifer lives in Los Angeles where she is an advanced level Groundlings student. Let's play.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jennifer Winter

Jen's daughter, Zoe, born in 1997, is a singer and plays piano, bass and ukulele.

She was a windsurfer for two years, and traveled to Baja, California to sail the Gulf of Mexico.

"Ratstar" took three years to shoot, so she had to maintain her hairstyle throughout the process (not an easy task, even for the same hairdresser!).

She met her birth father only once. He was a musician who played with the Portland band The Shaggy Gorillas Minus One Buffalo Fish. She met him when she was 22.

Jennifer was a citizen of Black Rock City.