Fiona Jenkins

(she/her)
BFA Acting

Fiona is an actor and dancer from Portland. For UBC: Oil (May), Machinal (Telephone Girl/Young Woman), The Greeks (Hecuba/Electra). Other credits: Kayleen in Gruesome Playground Injuries, Miranda in The Tempest, Jennifer in Burst, and Eurydice in Eurydice. She has danced with BodyVox’s JAG Company.

You have/will see/hear/experience my work in

Machinal, Naked Cinema and Oil.

What was one of the highlights of your UBC experience?

Stepping out onstage on the final night of Oil and feeling the energy of a full house. I got to share this wonderful story one last time with my classmates, and the energy onstage was overwhelming. The love and talent everyone brought blew me away!

What kind of creative work do you see yourself doing in the next few years?

I am so excited by a lot of new plays being published right now, and I want to focus on new works. Lots of intimate and imaginative settings, breaking the fourth wall, reimagining classics. I’m excited by work that challenges me and makes me think.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?

Independently producing Gruesome Playground Injuries, a play by Rajiv Joseph, with fellow BFA students and alumni.

Which talent would you most like to have?

I would love to get better at acrobatics. Someday I will do a handspring!

What is your guilty pleasure?

I’m obsessed with trashy young adult sci-fi/fantasy novels.

If you could have dinner with someone fictional/real, who would it be?

I would love to meet my favourite author, Becky Chambers. She seems so insightful and whimsical!

If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

I think I’d like to be a pine tree, to be connected with the earth around me and all of the living things in my ecosystem.

Check out Fiona’s work here!