Jeanne Sakatas an award-winning actor and playwright whose versatility spans across theater, television, film, voiceover and audiobooks. Called “a local treasure” by the Los Angeles Times, her recent TV work includes recurring and guest star roles on ABC/Shondaland’s Station 19, CBS’ Magnum P.I., NCIS Hawai’i, and NCIS Los Angeles; Marvel-Hulu’s Hit Monkey; and Disney’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and Big Hero 6. Onstage, Jeanne was recently featured in the 2025 National Tour of Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated Here There Are Blueberries at the McCarter Theatre, The Wallis Annenberg Center, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, as well as the play’s 2022 world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse. Jeanne also performed in the 2023 revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight at CTG’s Mark Taper Forum, and at such theatres as the Vineyard Theatre, Public Theatre, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, South Coast Rep, and ACT Seattle.
Jeanne’s solo play Hold These Truths (Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Solo Performance; Theatre Bay Awards, Outstanding Production, Lead Performance, Direction), has won awards and accolades in over twenty productions with Arena Stage, Barrington Stage Company, Guthrie Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, ACT Seattle, Portland Center Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Epic Theatre Ensemble, East West Players, and more. She also recently authored two audio plays commissioned by L.A. Theatre Works, For Us All and a new adaptation of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (2025 Audie Award Finalist; 2024 Earphones Award Winner). Jeanne is currently working on her latest play, Springs, commissioned by Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC.
Special honors: Theatre LA Ovation Award, Outstanding Lead Actress (Chay Yew’s Red, East West Players); Ticketholder Award, Best Actress In A Play, (Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum); Trailblazers Award, Outstanding Artistic Achievement, East West Players; Playwrights' Arena, Lee Melville Award, Outstanding Contribution to Los Angeles Theatre. (jeannesakata.com, holdthesetruths.info)