Cindy Marie Jenkins

Cindy Marie Jenkins is a Storyteller based in Los Angeles. Her personal mission is to connect artists with technology to find a new audience, and serve as a resource for audiences to find new artists.

Currently Marketing Director for 24th STreet Theatre, Social Marketing Consultant for Gracie & Rose at the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Social Media Consultant for ECCLA & The Help Group (named one of the Top Facebook Pages & Twitter Accounts to Follow for Special Education). Cindy also serves on the Steering Committee of Directors Lab West.

Past clients included former City Council President Eric Garcetti’sLos Angeles Neighborhood Dreams Initiative (LAND), LA Stage Alliance’s $25,000 Indiegogo campaign, Indy Convergence’s Indiegogo Campaign, The Global Theatre Project, Drive Theatre Company, Broad Humor Film Festival, Venice Neighborhood Council, Sarah Mata Yoga, LA Writers Center, LA Female Playwrights Initiative, Beans Boutique, and many individuals for their career goals. Cindy also served as Social Media Strategist/Manager for ARTmageddon September 29-30.

She curates arts shows on You Tube, live broadcasts experimenting with how G+ and YouTube develop audiences. Cindy co-hosts the weekly Web Series Watch, where she reviews web series and interview Creators and Innovators. She has been a guest on LaLaLand Talk, In the Room, Angry Patrons, Bitter Lemons, Live & Digital Spill. She regularly contributes to 24th ST Theatre’s blog, Web Grandparent , Bitter Lemons, LAFPI, and previously contributed to ArtJob.org (Arts For LA), LA Stage Times, Atwater Village Now, The Inspired Classroom, Theatre @ Boston Court & The Comics Observer,.

She was one of the arts advocates who created the #LAthtr hashtag in 2010 to unify the Los Angeles theatre scene. Her signature workshop Self-Promoting Without Annoying Your Friends has been presented at LAFPI, Directors Lab West, the Playwrights Union, local community mixers, the Indy Convergence, and adjusted for individuals every other month.

Works in progress include Story Consultant for The Palace of Knossos (3D previsualization of a dark ride set in the mythical Minotaur’s Labyrinth), the first novel in her upcoming series The Blue Dragon Scribe Shoppe. She’s revising a trans-media series called MYTHistories, including the performance pieces MYTHistories of the Son and Fatima Quest (both work-shopped at the Indy Convergence, where she is a Resident Artist). Her awareness piece Voices From Chornobyl has been presented in both the US and the UK to raise money and knowledge of the nuclear accident (inspired by Svetlana Alexievich‘s interviews). Voices From Chornobyl Jr. premiered and won Best of 2011 Fringe, while Dragon Compact premiered as part of Moving Arts’ The Car Plays LA, Radar LA International Festival. She’s performed as a Storyteller in the Hollywood Fringe Festival tent, Santa Monica Rep’s 2011 Brecht Gala and Electric Lodge’s max10 series.

Previous community art installations/interactions shown at the 1st Annual Atwater Art Walk, Summer Nights on the Boulevard, The Barnsdall Gallery, The Courtyard Gallery, the Silver Lake Jubilee (2010 & 2011) and the Children’s Festival of the Arts in Hollywood.