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Spoiler alert: If my character wears a red dress, there's a good chance she'll kill someone by the final curtain.​​

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I'm an international, award-winning actress who excels in making bold, extreme choices seem natural, and adding refined subtleties to extreme characters. For decades, directors have championed my ability to bring truth, masterful comic timing, and precise physicality to any role.

 

My greatest strength is my versatility, with a rogues gallery ranging from campy, Old-Hollywood vixens, to feral, misshapen Shakespearean creatures, to posh, uptight, acerbic socialites/sociopaths, to down-to-earth, sarcastic millennials.

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Before receiving my BA in Theatre (Acting) from St. Edward's University, I trained at Yale School of Drama's Summer Conservatory for Actors. Most notably, I've done productions with Actor's Equity Association, performed at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, and recently made my directorial debut with the dark American comedy Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire.

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield

Wick Theatre Company,
The Barn Theatre

The “Excellence Award” goes collectively to a team of three talented performers for their amazing teamwork and their acting brilliance. Awarded to Jacqueline Harper, Mark Best, and Dan Dryer for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Wick Theatre Company. â€‹â€‹

"It was fast paced and suitably ridiculous with plenty of humour and clowning... Were the cast really going to dip in to all those plays? Even William Shakespeare might well have started banging from his grave: “impossible, impossible, impossible.” But, the name on the tin was ‘the complete works’ albeit with the contractual get out clause ‘abridged’. So the cast kept going in their splendid, manic way, shouting the words in ever wilder tones."

Miss Scarlet

Clue: On Stage by Sandy Rustin

Wick Theatre Company,
The Barn Theatre

Paige

Dinner by Moira Buffini

Southwick Players,
The Barn Theatre
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"Jacqueline Harper played Paige to perfection. From her first lines, you knew she was a nasty piece of work and this exacerbated with her increasingly frequent requests for 'more drinks'. She was the epiphany of a depressed wife, determined to bring everyone else down. By the end, I truly felt sorry for her. "

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Wick Theatre Company,
The Barn Theatre

"Finally, Jacqueline Harper as Lady Macbeth was incredible. I would run out of superlatives trying to praise her performance which contained true depth and emotion. From her darker side to her final breakdown, she showed a magnificence in every facet of character."

Caliban

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

Wick Theatre Company,
The Barn Theatre
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"But the stand-out performance had to be Jacqueline Harper as the slave Caliban. She held her hunched-over, monster-like posture throughout each of her scenes – quite some time in some cases – and bounded around the stage with great athleticism. I especially enjoyed the drunken antics of Trinculo, Stephano and Caliban, and the way the movements of someone under the influence were portrayed was spot on."

Sarah Casey

Disappeared

by Phyllis Nagy

Wick Theatre Company,
The Barn Theatre
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"Such a demanding piece requires the best actors you can find in amateur theatre and Guy has put together a stellar cast for this one... And so to Sarah Casey, who is in many ways lost in terms of her life as well as in reality, and a strong performance from Jacqueline Harper. Although she has disappeared, she crops up throughout, due to the way the timeline is twisted, and Jacqueline uses this to develop the character. There is a lot of humour in the play but it is also very dark. It is haunting and challenging and will leave you talking about it for hours."

Lorraine Sheldon

The Man Who Came To Dinner

by Moss Hart and

George S. Kaufman

Southwick Players,
The Barn Theatre
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"Each performer brought a unique and three dimensional character sparkling to life in the comedy penned by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman... There were two standout cameos for me.... The confident and beautifully shallow character of Lorraine Sheldon was skillfully and wittily delivered by the talented Jacqueline Harper."

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