Jennie Franks

She has spearheaded the Telluride Playwrights Festival. Her award winning educational films are shown throughout the country and her one-woman show STUCK debuted in 2008 at the Frigid Theatre Festival in New York

Jennie Franks. Board President and Artistic Director Telluride Playwrights Festival.

Jennie started Sparky Productions in the late 90’s with Katie Jewett. Recently Jennie has returned to her first love the theatre, this time as Artistic Director of the Telluride Playwrights Festival and playwright.

Jennie started her acting career in London in the West End and worked for the BBC prior to moving to Los Angeles, still practicing her craft on stage and screen and occasionally sidelining as a photographer and lyricist for Jethro Tull.

Jennie and her husband, screenwriter Jeffrey Price moved their family to Telluride, Colorado where she founded Sparky Productions.