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Euripides' Alcestis
Euripides' Alcestis
Adapted by Jeannie Thomas, Taryn Spires Kue, and Gabrielle Sinclair
Dir. David Saltz
Produced by UGA Theatre
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This collaboratively written adaptation of Euripides' play approaches the story of Alcestis, Admetus, and Herakles through a modern feminist lens. The play was commissioned for production by UGA Theatre and performed as part of the mainstage season in October 2021.
Read about it at the Department of Theatre & Film Studies
Read about it in The Red & Black
Written by Bella Smith
Directed by Jeannie Thomas
Produced by Town & Gown Players
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Jeannie directed this new full-length play in May 2025 as part of Town & Gown Players' Second Stage season. Jeannie worked with UGA undergraduate playwright Bella Smith to develop the script in the fall of 2024, which had a staged reading at UGA in November 2024. The play would go on to receive a reading at the North Georgia New Play Festival in September 2025.
Mission: s.t.e.a.m.
Mission: s.t.e.a.m.
Written by Taryn Spires Kue
Dir. Meg Grey and Taryn Spires Kue
Self-produced at the University of Georgia
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Mission: S.T.E.A.M. was Jeannie's 2023 Master's thesis project, for which she designed the sound and participated in the script development process. Jeannie aided with workshopping the play in the fall of 2022, which included a staged reading at UGA.
Kingdom (a play about snow white and climate change)
Kingdom (a play about snow white and climate change)
Written by Claudia Barnett
Dir. Vivian Appler
Produced by UGA Theatre
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Jeannie designed the sound for the first fully-staged production of Kingdom in the spring of 2026. Prior to the production, Jeannie participated in a class on producing the new script, which centered Kingdom and its script development for production the following semester. Jeannie worked closely with director Vivian Appler and playwright Claudia Barnett to workshop the script and perform dramaturgical research to support the production and Jeannie's design. Jeannie participated in a staged reading of Kingdom in November 2025, for which she provided live Foley sound effects in line with her vision for the production. She collaborated with actors Ava Chandler and Hibiscus DeWitt on arranging melodies for Waterfall's songs, based on traditional Nordic tunes.
BREATHE
BREATHE
Written by Angela Hall
Dir. Freda Scott Giles
Produced by UGA Theatre
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This devised work was part of UGA Theatre's 2020-2021 virtual season. Jeannie and a team of filmmakers collaborated with the playwright, director, and cast to shoot and edit the production, including archival media research and VFX.
2020-2021 Highlight Reel | UGA Theatre & Film Studies
Running time: 10:55 min
Samples of Breathe can be found at 00:16-00:43 and at 02:46-4:21.
Café Apollinaire
Café Apollinaire
Jeannie's ten-minute play "One Smart Cookie" had a staged reading at Café Apollinaire in April 2022, direced by Meg Grey. The play was developed in 2019. Read it here.
Jeannie also directed a staged reading of "Drink Your Milk," a ten-minute play written by Meg Grey, at Café Apollinaire. Jeannie workshopped the play with Grey in 2021 prior to directing it.
Athens Playwrights' Workshop
Athens Playwrights' Workshop
Jeannie is an occasional attendee of the Athens Playwrights' Workshop (APW), developing new plays in collaboration with other local playwrights.
Jeannie's one-act play "Innocent as Doves" had a workshop reading with APW in 2021. Read it here.
Through connections made at APW, Jeannie has had the opportunity to workshop numerous new plays and screenplays, including "An Arachnid Altercation," "Rainy Days and Mondays," "The Haunting of Madison Bayer," and "When Will You Learn (That Your Actions Have Consequences)."
Additionally, Jeannie worked with playwright Paul Markert to workshop his one-act play "Blender Knows Debs," which was a finalist for the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival in 2022. Jeannie is very proud of her buddy Paul, with whom she plays D&D.
The following courses Jeannie has taught and assisted at UGA have included some form of script development, described in more detail below.
Instructor of Record - Basic Dramatic Writing
Jeannie led a course on dramatic writing for undergraduate students, guiding them in the basics of writing for stage and screen. Each day in class, students volunteered pages to be read and workshopped, culminating in one ten-minute play and one ten-minute screenplay by each student.
For her work in this course, Jeannie was awarded the 2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Instructor of Record - Appreciation of Theatre
Jeannie taught an introductory course on theatre intended for undergraduate students both inside the department and outside of it. As part of this class, students were assigned to write an original monologue, workshopped with Jeannie. Additionally, students were assigned to view new plays and workshops taking place on campus throughout the semester, writing responses to the productions with specific attention to the script in development.
Teaching Assistant - Queer Theatre & Film, George Contini (instructor of record)
Jeannie worked as a teaching assistant, providing support in the classroom and delivering lessons on the history of queer performance. The final project for this class was a series of original plays based on students' archival research into queer history, presented as a staged reading.
Youth Programs @ UGA
Youth Programs @ UGA
The following courses Jeannie taught for Youth Programs @ UGA have included some form of script development, described in more detail below.
Intro to Digital Film
Jeannie has led six summer sessions of Intro to Digital Film, a week-long course for students in middle school and early high school. These students write, shoot, and edit their own original short films using professional equipment and software. In this course, Jeannie led development workshops on students' screenplays, guiding them from logline to treatment to production.
Screenwriting
Jeannie led courses on Screenwriting, introducing middle and high school students to scriptwriting techniques and guiding them in writing their own original screenplays. Over the course of this camp, students wrote numerous short films that the class workshopped, culminating in a short screenplay presented at the end of the week.
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