Jennifer Lines

Jennifer Lines is a Canadian theatre and television actress.

Lines (right) performing in a stage-play with Benedict Campbell at 2015

Lines graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from the University of Victoria.^[1] She has starred in productions at the Arts Club Theatre,^[2][3] Bard on the Beach,^[4][5] Vancouver Playhouse^[6] and the Belfry Theatre. She has played in Beyond Eden, The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, A Little Night Music and Hello Dolly at the Vancouver Playhouse.^[1] Her stage credits for the Art Club include It's a Wonderful Life, The Real Thing, Here on the Flight Path and Sylvia.^[1]

Lines has received several Jessie Richardson Theatre Award nominations. She was nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award in 2014 for the category of Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Small Theatre for her performance in Whose Life Is It Anyway? staged by Realwheels Theatre.^[7] Lines has been fascinated by Shakespeare's plays from an early age.^[8]

Lines was praised by the Globe and Mail for her gender-bending portrayal of Horatio in the Bard on the Beach's 2013 staging of Hamlet.^[9] The Georgia Straight has praised Lines for both her technical skill and for being "emotionally present" as an actress.^[10] The Province calls Lines' performance "classic."^[11] Vancouver Sun calls Lines one of "Vancouver's brightest stars of the theatre."^[12]

Selected stage credits

• Simone in Après Moi, staged by Ruby Slippers Theatre in association with BoucheWHACKED! Theatre Collective (2015).^[13]
• Horatio in Hamlet, staged by Bard on the Beach (2013).^[9]
• Olivia in Twelfth Night, staged by Bard on the Beach (2013).^[10]
• Mary Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life, staged by Arts Club Theatre (2012).^[11]
• Mimi in Mimi or a Poisoner's Comedy, staged by Touchstone Theatre (2010).^[14]
• Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, staged by Bard on the Beach (2010).^[15]
• Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, staged by Bard on the Beach (2010).^[16]
• Luciana in A Comedy of Errors, staged by Bard on the Beach (2009).^[17]
• Ariel in The Tempest, staged by Bard on the Beach (2008).^[18]
• Annie in The Real Thing, staged by StoppardFest (2007).^[19]
• Cressida in Troilus and Cressida, staged by Bard on the Beach (2006).^[20]
• Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, staged by Bard on the Beach (2005).^[21]
• Mistress Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor, staged by Bard on the Beach (2004).^[22]
• Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, staged by Bard on the Beach (2004).^[23]
• Adriana in A Comedy of Errors, staged by Bard on the Beach (2003).^[24]
• Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice, staged by Bard on the Beach (2003).^[25]
• Katherine in Henry V, staged by Bard on the Beach (2002).^[26]
• Maria in Twelfth Night, staged by Bard on the Beach (2002).^[27]
• Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, staged by Bard on the Beach.^[28]
• Maria in Love's Labour's Lost, staged by Bard on the Beach (1997).^[29]
• Mopsa in The Winter's Tale, staged by Bard on the Beach (1997).^[30]
• Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing, staged by Bard on the Beach (1996).^[31]
• Jessica in The Merchant of Venice, staged by Bard on the Beach (1996).^[32]