Jeanne is an award-winning actor and playwright whose recent TV work includes recurring/guest star roles on ABC/Shondaland’s Station 19, CBS’ Magnum P.I., NCIS Hawai’i, and NCIS Los Angeles; Marvel-Hulu’s Hit Monkey; and Disney’s High School Musical: The Musical:The Series and Big Hero 6. Onstage, Jeanne most recently performed in the 2025 National Tour of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Here There Are Blueberries, directed by Moisés Kaufman, and written by Kaufman and Amanda Gronich, at the McCarter Theatre, the Wallis Annenberg Center, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She also performed in the 2023 revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight at CTG’s Mark Taper Forum, and at such theatres as the Vineyard Theatre, Public Theatre, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theatre, The Old Globe, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, South Coast Rep, ACT Seattle, and Portland Center Stage.
Jeanne’s celebrated solo play Hold These Truths (Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance; Theatre Bay Awards, Outstanding Production, Lead Performance, Direction) has won awards and accolades in over twenty productions with Arena Stage, Barrington Stage Company, Guthrie Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, ACT Seattle, Portland Center Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Epic Theatre Ensemble, East West Players, and more. Jeanne has also authored two audio plays commissioned by the L.A. Theatre Works, For Us All, as well as a special adaptation of A Secret Garden from the classic novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and is currently working on a new play, Springs, commissioned by the Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC for their Legacy Commissions program. Special honors: Theatre LA Ovation Award, Outstanding Lead Actress (Chay Yew’s Red, East West Players); East West Players, Trailblazer Award, Outstanding Artistic Achievement; Playwrights’ Arena, Lee Melville Award, Outstanding Contribution to the LA Theatre Community. (jeannesakata.com, holdthesetruths.info)