Jenni Barber
Jenni Barber
BFA in MT, University of Michigan
AEA, SAG-AFTRA
She/Her
Originally from Ohio, Jenni made her Broadway debut in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as Olive Ostrovsky. She went on to perform on Broadway in The Performers, The Nance, Annie, Sunday In The Park With George, All My Sons, and as Glinda in Wicked. Her other theatrical credits include the Signature Theatre revival of By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, The Bridge Project’s As You Like It & The Tempest directed by Sam Mendes, From Up Here at MTC, Paint Your Wagon and A New Brain at NYCC Encores, and Sunday In The Park With George at the Huntington Theatre (2017 Elliot Norton Theatre Award for portraying Dot/Marie). Television credits include “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Master of None,” “Elementary,” “Smash,” “Law & Order: SVU,“ “The 68th Annual Tony Awards (‘For Good’ – Glinda, Wicked 10th Anniversary Performance)”, “Live from Lincoln Center (The Nance)”, and as Lisa Heffenbacher in the Emmy Award-winning, “The Electric Company.” Jenni has recorded several audiobook titles including the popular Dork Diaries Series. Jenni graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Michigan receiving the Earl V. Moore Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre.
