Jennie Esdale is Co-Artistic Director of Green Fools Theatre and is a performer, designer, writer and director with the company.

Her artistic work extends from graphic, costume, including the design and creation of many of our stilt roving characters & puppet design, to director and/ or writer of spectacle and theatre shows, and performer and creator of touring and spectacle productions and animation.

Jennie also works with several leading and independent Canadian theatre companies including: Theatre Calgary, National Arts Centre, Citadel Theatre, Sage Theatre, Ghostriver Theatre, Theatre Network, Shadow Theatre, Stage West, generic theatre, Lunchbox Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, Mammilian Diving Reflex and Teatro La Quindicino.

Jennie recieved a Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Drama for her performance in Ghostriver Theatre's Confessions of a Paperboy, a Betty Mitchell Award Nomination for her work as Isabel in Sage Theatres' Lion in the Streets and a Elizabeth Sterling Hayes Nomination for her performance in Fringe Theatre Adventures production of Night Light. Jennie is based in Toronto and Calgary.

This season, Jennie continues her work with ATP/ The Only Animals production of NIX- theatre of ice and snow, performs Confessions of a Paperboy at the Cultch in Vancouver, and writes and directs Green Fools Theatres spectacle Halloween show as well as our latest puppet production- Isis & Osiris: A Shadow Opera.