Award-Winning Actor & Playwright

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Here There Are Blueberries

By Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich
Conceived & Directed by Moisés Kaufman
Produced by Tectonic Theatre Project

2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist

2025 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
McCarter Theatre
January 24-February 9
The Wallis Annenberg Center
March 13-20
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
April 5-May 11


Lifestyle TV

Hold These Truths with Jeanne Sakata
TV Interview with Roy Ice
Airing October 27, 2024 & available online

NOW AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING

The Secret Garden

AudioFile Magazine’s 2024 Earphones Award Winner for Poetry & Drama

Presented & Commissioned by
LA Theatre Works

Adapted by Jeanne Sakata
From the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky

Performed by Shannon Cochran, Jonathan Charles, Adhir Kalyan, Alma Marian,
Alastair James Murden, Lina Patel, Cerris Morgan-Moyer, and Ian Ogilvy

Dance Nation

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 PULITZER PRIZE IN DRAMA

October 25, 26, and 27, 2024
Presented by the Lobby Theatre @AGBO
By Clare Barron
Directed by Robin Larsen

Performed by Justin Kirk, Charmaine Bingwa, Marin Hinkle, Kavi Ladnier, Steven Klein, Jeanne Sakata, Kimberly Condict, Angela Lin, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, and Abby Marks

COMING SOON

Springs

A New Play Commissioned by The Ford’s Theatre
Written by Jeanne Sakata


 

Explore Jeanne’s Work

Jeanne Sakata is an award-winning actor and playwright whose versatility spans across theater, television, film, voiceover animation, and audiobooks.

Recent TV recurring and guest star roles include ABC/Shondaland’s Station 19, CBS’ Magnum P.I., NCIS: Hawai’i, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Disney Plus’ High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

Her voice talents are featured in animated series by Marvel, Disney, Apple, and Nickelodeon, and she can also be heard on the audiobooks for How High We Go in the Dark and Trust.

Jeanne’s first play, Hold These Truths, commissioned by Center Theatre Group, won rave reviews over two dozen productions across the country and continues to be produced nationally and internationally. She also authored the 2021 L.A. Theatre Works audio drama For Us All. She is currently working on two commissions: an audio drama of THE SECRET GARDEN for LATW, and a new play, SPRINGS, for the 2024 Legacy Commissions at Washington DC’s Ford Theatre.