Jeanmarie Simpson is founding artistic director of the Nevada Shakespeare Company (NSC), from which she retired in March of 2008. She is a current member of Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills, for whom she has performed Anne in Shakespeare's Will and Rose Kennedy in The Color of Rose. In addition to her decades in regional theatre, she has directed dozens of NSC productions of Shakespeare and many original and new plays. In the past six years, she has directed Euripides' Trojan Women and a four-actor King Lear, which she also adapted and in which she played Goneril and the Doctor. In that time, she has also performed in The Road to Mecca, directed by Tony Award winner Zakes Mokae, Amigas, which she also co-adapted, La Noche Antes de Navidad and 263 performances of A Single Woman, which she also wrote and which ran Off-Broadway at The Culture Project in New York in spring and summer of 2005. She appeared in the film of A Single Woman, directed by Kamala Lopez. In the fall of 2005, Jeanmarie remounted her 6-actor repertory treatments of Richard III and Hamlet as part of the NEA's Shakespeare for a New Generation initiative. She is a member of Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She has received three Sierra Arts Professional Artist Fellowships and was honored as Surdna Distinguished Guest Artist by InnerSpark, the California Summer Institute, in 2004. She sits on the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).