Jenna: You have to be willing to open yourself up, and to sit in the audience and be taken on this journey. If you come in with an open mind, and watch all of these kids tell their story to this amazing music, then you’re going to be affected by it.
Jenna: I try not to talk too much during the daytime, staying in and laying low, because I do tend to talk too much when I’m out! I’m also big into yoga, because the core of singing is breathing, and you work on that through yoga. It’s also great for stretching and relaxing your body, which helps day in and day out.
Jenna: I just love acting and performing, and I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t often have that initial spark or idea, so I need to work with the director, and with the composer. As soon as the idea is planted in my brain though, I run with it, but I love the process of working with the production team to explore avenues that I haven’t thought of. A lot of the changes that have been made never would have occurred to me, but every time I get new script pages, I think ‘wow, this is even better than what we had before!
Jenna: Theater has its own set of risks too, because there isn’t any stopping and starting either, so if you mess yourself up, you also need to find a way out of it. (about performing in theater)
Jenna: My first real part though was the Diary of Anne Frank when I was about 14. I was so young, and completely wide-eyed that I was open to anything that anyone wanted to tell me, which helped me to learn so much doing that show.
Jenna: I’m a twin, and they say that when you are a twin that one person takes a much more dominant role, and the other one kind of stays in the background... I was always the one that kind of stayed in the background. My mother encouraged performing and theater because she thought that it was something that I’d be good at and that it could help to break me out of my shell.
Jenna: Phantom was the first really big show that I saw, and then Les Mis which was just incredible and to this day is one of my all time favorite shows. (talking about Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables)
Jenna's first experiences on stage were yearly Christmas shows at Church, followed by playing Cinderella in Junior High School.
Jenna has a twin sister, Jessica.
Jenna appeared in the movie Death of a Cheerleader.
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