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 SDA Vice President JEY JOHNSON KENNEDY
Jey Johnson-Kennedy is a in her 5th (and hopefully final) year at UAF pursuing a double major in Theatre Performance and in English. She spent the last few summers building a cabin in the woods where she now lives with her husband, her dog Misha, and a sweet kitten. She is a weaver, and joys in creating pieces of art and beautiful clothing on her various looms. She tries to find time to cook food for her non nuclear family, bake bread and biscuits, go on walks with the puppies, and stretch her body and soul in yoga practice. She has served as an officer in SDA for the past 4 years, as treasurer,then as President, as the student-faculty liason, and currently as the Vice –President. She was last year's recipient of the "Outstanding Theatre Student of the Year" award. Her primary interests in the theatre are Shakespeare and movement and physical storytelling. She is a co-founder of Righteous Ladies Rebelling, a campus group dedicated to producing women’s art and theatre. She directed “The Vagina Monologues” for RLR two years ago and will be remounting and reconcieving Righteous Ladies’ 2006 production of Dave Hunsaker’s “To Reign in Hell" in the near future. The play is a spiritual journey through cultures, the story of three subversive goddesses,Lillith, Sedna, and Persephone, in a spiritual reclamation of the female self. She is currently directing a nightmare version of "Midsummer Night's Dream" for SDA's Winter Shorts. She has been seen on the UAF stage playing as Julia in Carrie Baker’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, Madge in Lee Salsbury’s “Picnic”, and as Dashenka in Anatoly Antohin’s “Four Farces and a Funeral.” She has appeared in SDA’s Winter Shorts as the RedHead in “LoveTalker” and the Woman in “PowerLunch.” She has also been seen recently in the Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre’s production of “Camino Real” by Tennessee Williams playing Esmerelda, the Gypsy’s Daughter. She is a founding member of the Groundsquirrel Improv Comedy Troupe. She has appeared in Anatoly Antohin’s "Caligari: Alaska" as a Witch/Gypsy, crossing realms of reality and theatricality through movement, as well as working as a choreographer in conjunction with the Assistant Director, in Antohin's “Oleana” as choreographer and performer portraying the metaphysical female element in the movement interludes, and in Ben Coffroth’s “No Exit” as the butoh choreographer and performer of Wrath. Previously she also appeared in Coffroth’s “Cacophany” –an exploration of sound through the medium of Butoh. She studies Yoga and has studied butoh, and African dance, as well as jazz, ballet, and modern dance and believes that the human body can create narrative as effectively as the human voice.
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