Jennifer Lee Richardson

ONCE

Chance Theater 2026

Jennifer Richardson appears as Baruska in ONCE at Chance Theater. In the stage version of the beloved film by the same name, the actors play all the instruments of the band, and in Chance’s version, Jennifer plays the cello while she also sings and dances in Czech or with a Czech accent. Link to Chance Theatre’s ONCE web page.

Tiny Beautiful Things

Chance Theater April 2024

This is a beautiful, tiny, heartfelt play Jennifer Richardson plays Letter Writer #2, who shifts through several roles, including a woman who is suffering grief from having a miscarriage, and a girl who is a chronic thief and Cheryl’s (Sugar’s) mom in Chance Theater’s production of Tiny Beautiful Things by Nia Vardalos based on the book by Cheryl Strayed. Link to Chance Theatre Page for Tiny Beautiful Things

BOTH 2022

I’m playing a shepherd in this EPIC Beatles Christmas musical special this Wednesday at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica!

It is this mad mashup / juke-box style retelling of the Nativity story with gospel BEATLES songs an incredible talent. I was in the first workshop of it in 2009 for a new plays festival in Hollywood. It is such a feel good, inspirational, exceptionally timely and universal (yes) moment to reconnect. MANY of us who participate in the show as performers or audience (who come year after year) do not also identify as Christian. Yet the thousands-of-years-old story of a new year / new sun/son (Solstice – new life) – resonates for all.

Come experience BOTH this Winter Solstice at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica!

www.openfist.org for tickets – All volunteer cast! All proceeds go to www.heartofla.com

2 showings at 4pm and 8pm. Will sell out!

Over 50 person cast; all-star choir, leads, super band; lead by Jason Paige.

The Rocky Horror Show

at California State University Long Beach

Directed by Jennifer Richardson

STRIKING 12 at Chance Theater

The Rona Tango: a Mini-Musical Medley Music Video

Directed by Jennifer Richardson

CSULB Theatre Arts presents The Rona Tango: A Mini-Musical Medley

Directed by Jennifer Richardson
Music Directed / Music Production by Kyle Puccia
Choreographed by Christopher Albrecht
Video Edited by Jennifer Richardson
Dance Captain: Julia Russell

CAST Abigail Toler, Elijah Cineas, Hannah Edel, Jackie Nisall, Jason Rivera, Kyomi Wong, Maryann Montalbo, Nini Cheng, Rhiannon Lewis, Rory Smith, Roxana Solis, Spencer Moore, Zach Liong

Director’s Note: This music video was devised by students during the COVID-19 pandemic Spring Semester of 2021. It was recorded by students on their own devices from California to Florida to Taiwan. The framing song is "Cellblock Tango” from Chicago. The theme is around the idea of isolation and reaching out of isolation with confessions -breaking free, finding power, finding peace, finding love, finding joy. Where isolation comes from prison cells in Chicago, for these students in this video, isolation comes from the individual realities of living in a pandemic. Some stories are imagined. The lenses through which we see these confessions are social media, FaceTime, Zoom, Skype or metaphorical, like a bathroom stall mirror or an imagined confrontation with a couch.