Playwright
PlayMakers: Hold These Truths.
Credits: Seattle’s A Contemporary Theatre, July-August 2014. Hold These Truths: world premiere, Los Angeles’ East West Players, October 2007, co-presented by the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the Japanese American National Museum; also Chicago’s Silk Road Rising/Millennium Park; New York premiere, Epic Theatre Ensemble, October 2012 (2013 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance). Honolulu Theatre for Youth co-produced with Daniel Dae Kim, and Terra Nova Collective’s 2013 soloNOVA Festival.
Awards/Recognition: Jeanne is also a renowned actress of stage and screen (LA Ovation Award, Outstanding Lead Actress, Chay Yew’s Red (East West Players); Entertainment Today Award; Best Supporting Actress, Chay Yew’s A Winter People (Theatre @ Boston Court); 2013 Monaco Charity Film Festival Award, Best Actress, Adultolescence; 2011 Outstanding Artist Award, Asian Pacific American Friends of the Theatre establishment of Jeanne Sakata Collection, Library of Congress Playwrights Archive, Asian American Pacific Islander Collection, Washington DC.