Jennifer Little

Jennifer Little (born Jennifer Anne Little, April 29, 1961) is a Broadway and Film Actress who spent over fifteen years in the professional performing world, performing on Broadway and in film and television. She performed in "Phantom of the Opera" as Carlotta, both in Europe and in New York, as well as Off-Broadway with such performers as Michael Cerveris, Alice Ripley and more. She won the San Francisco MacAllister Competition, won second place in the Bel Canto International Competition, and was a semi-finalist in the International Pavarotti Competition. Jennifer received her Bachelor of Arts degree from San Jose State University in 1986, focusing on Opera Performance and Musical Theatre.
More recently, she turned to working with at-risk students, doing Literacy through the Arts, Guest Artist programs and creating arts programs for inner city schools. In 2005, she began teaching fulltime, working on bringing applied theatre to standard curriculum programs within public schools in the U.S. and integrating Social Studies and English into the Arts. She currently teaches fulltime at Franklin High School in Somerset, New Jersey and has created a critically acclaimed program that focuses on theatre's role in society and actors' responsibility to the world.
She has spoken at New York University's conference on Applied Theatre and Citizenship, the 2010 Educational Theatre Association's Conference and the 2011 International Online Conference on Teacher Education: Teacher Education in the Age of Globalization, as well as being an attendee at the 2010 Contact Theatre International Forum as one of 27 invited guests from around the world. She is currently working on a book about applied theatre as part of public school curriculum. She has done workshops with academic and art teachers in districts across the Northeast and is currently writing a book about doing applied theatre within public school curriculum. She is a member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, New Jersey Education Association, Teachers Without Borders and Educational Theatre Association.

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