Jazmine Simone Logan

Jazmine Simone Logan is a fourth-year PhD student with a BA in Theater Arts and Politics from University of California, Santa Cruz, and a MA in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University. Jazmine was awarded SFSU’s 2021 Graduate Award for Distinguished Achievement, Black Theater Network’s 2020 S Randolph Edmonds Young Scholar’s Award and as the featured winner at San Francisco State University’s 2020 Research Competition in Creative Arts and Design for her research project Yoruba Theater in the UC and CSU Campuses: Analyzing the Pedagogy of Yoruba Theater in California’s Public Universities. Her research led to her advocacy to increase Yoruba theater representation in theater arts curriculum to expand the canon. Jazmine’s research interests include African theater, African American theater, Afrocentricity, race and performance in theater pedagogy, cultural competency, critical race theory, and social justice work in theater education. Jazmine’s passion for using theater arts as a vehicle for social change was fueled by her work with UC Santa Cruz’s Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center as the Chancellor’s Undergraduate Intern, Board of Director’s Chair, Outreach Coordinator, and now currently as an Alumni Advisory Board member for the center’s African American Theater Arts Troupe to increase representation of African American, Chicanx/Latinx American, and Asian American theater on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Jazmine is also an actress, director, and dancer.

Her credits include Spring Awakening: The Musical (Assistant Director/Dramaturg) at San Francisco State University; Crowns (Mabel/Assistant Director), The Children’s Hour (Peggy Rogers), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testimonies (Co-Director), A Raisin in the Sun (Ruth Younger), Zoot Suit (Guera/Ensemble), Detroit ’67 (Bunny “Bonita”), The Odyssey (Trojan/Hecuba/Suitor), A Dream Play (Victoria/Ensemble), and The Waiting Room (Brenda) at UC Santa Cruz. UC San Diego Credits: In the Red and Brown Water (dramaturg).

Research 

African theater, African American theater, Afrocentricity, race and performance in theater pedagogy, cultural competency, critical race theory, and social justice work in theater education.

Education 

BA in Theatre Arts and BA in Politics from University of California, Santa Cruz

MA in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University