Category: Jeanne's Timeline

While housesitting for friends in the Hamptons I meet Richard – who turns out to be the love of my life. Within a year we’re married.

Presenting to Step Up’s college-bound high school girls and their mentors. Their trajectory is to “graduate high school confident on their way to joining the next generation of professional women.”

With Emily-Anne at St. John’s University in NYC equipping  young women with skills to “bring kind attention to some of our most challenging self-talk.”

The impact of WeStopHate (over 1 million video views!) leads to a book deal. We co-author (and I illustrate!) FLAWD – How To Stop Hating On Yourself, Others and the Things that Make you Who You Are (Penguin Random House...

I go to the Berlin-Brandenburg International School in Germany to work with girls who are part of “the global girl community.” Together we explore life as a heroic journey – and ourselves within it.

I move to Austin, TX where I go into schools all over Austin. Here learning the “Break the Chain” and having conversations with the GEN Austin girls around stopping the violence women and girls endure.

I meet 15-year old Emily-Anne Rigal who uses her love of creating hilarious YouTube videos to start the anti-bullying movement, WeStopHate. I support her in getting her teen-esteem message out: “People who feel good about themselves don’t put others down.”

Believing girl-energy to be some of the most potent stuff on the planet, I use the cartoon character I created – Ruby – to engage with girls online to help them “find, shape and share their great girl voices.”

After completing a three month silent retreat at IMS in Barre, MA  I decide “this is the life for me” and join their staff. I get to be part of the start-up team of the Forest Refuge for “sustained, longer-term...

I align with the Center for Creative Education (CCE) to further develop the Hero’s Journey after-school programs and bring them into elementary schools throughout Dutchess and Ulster Counties, NY.

After 15 years it’s time to leave NYC and I end up in Woodstock, NY. With the help of a dedicated group of 7th and 8th graders in Saugerties NY, I begin creating after-school programs based on the Hero’s Journey.

I meet Poet-O – an enchanting if paranoid schizophrenic street poet. In spite of our 50 year age difference, we are fast friends and spend a lot of time together. My one-person-show turns into the Poet-O & Jeanne Show.

Out of heartbreak (musicians will do that) comes my first one-person show, Unanswered Letters: Excerpts from The Jeanne Books. It was about my tendency to be a fan… of everyone but myself.

When you do classical theatre in rotating rep, you play a lot of different roles. Here I am playing Celia Copplestone in T.S. Elliot’s The Cocktail Party – one of my all time favorites.

Immediately out of my acting conservatory training I get a job as a company member of the esteemed Jean Cocteau Repertory at the Bouwerie Lane Theater in NYC. I stay for five years.