Jeannie Thomas FX Reel

Running time: 1:03 min

Jeannie Thomas is an artist and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a third year PhD student at the University of Georgia studying Theatre & Performance Studies with a Certificate in Film and Media Scoring. She received her bachelor's degrees from UGA in May 2019, majoring in Film Studies and French. She graduated in May 2023 with her Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Media from UGA. Her areas of interest include digital film editing, virtual performance, horror film and theatre, sound design, and film scoring. 

Jeannie has written scores and worked as sound designer for many projects, including Alcestis (stage play, 2021), The Comedy of Errors (stage play, 2022), Mission: STEAM (stage play, 2023), Mother Courage & Her Children (stage play, 2023), "a ghost called Vicky" (short film, 2020), and CreepWalk Hall (video game, 2022). She was also nominated for the American College Theater Festival Region IV Award for Sound Design for her work on The Comedy of Errors, Mother Courage, John Proctor is the Villain, and Kingdom. 

Jeannie has worked as an editor on numerous projects, including Breathe (2020) and Here's Where I Stand (2021), and as lead editor on St. Nicholas (2021) and The Vitruvian Theory (2021). The Vitruvian Theory has won awards in the Hollywood Blood Horror Festival and the Best Actor & Director Awards.

Additionally, Jeannie has worked as Director of Photography on The Mountaintop (2021) and "Drink Your Milk" (2021). She has written and directed many short films and plays, such as Alcestis (playwright, 2021), "One Smart Cookie" (playwright, 2022), "Don't Go." (writer and director, 2021), and "a ghost called Vicky" (writer and director, 2020). 

Jeannie's academic research encompasses many aspects of film and theatre production, including sound design and performance studies. Jeannie is a contributing author to an anthology of essays on the Disney musical Newsies, and she delivered a conference paper at Southeastern Theatre Conference in April 2023 on tabletop role playing games and players' use of performance objects. Her thesis research focused on sound design in live performance, focusing on her experience in film and video games to innovate new ways of scoring the stage. 

Jeannie's dissertation research is based on her interest in horror performance, leading her to the phenomenon of "unfiction," a term used to refer to fictional stories that purport to be nonfiction. Through the lens of unfiction, her research details how various artforms, including theatre, film, literature and new media such as social media, create a perceived reality within a fictional world, in effect creating fiction grounded in an audience's experienced sense of truth. Jeannie has presented elements of her dissertation research at symposia and conferences, including Comparative Drama in 2024.

When she's not working or studying, Jeannie enjoys playing video games, listening to new musicals, playing D&D, and watching movies with her cat Molly.

Instagram: @Jeannie.Makes.Art

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11124277/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-jean-jeannie-thomas-304567146/