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Get you better makes its world premiere!
Danica’s debut short Get You Better makes it’s World Premiere at the 2024 Provincetown International Film Festival.
Get You Better was nominated for Best Drama Short at Cindependent Film Festival.
Stay tuned for more festival announcements on their way.
opening night of “Angels in america: Millenium approaches”
Danica returns to the Provincetown stage in Tony Kushner’s Tony Award Winning Best Play Angels in America: Millenium Approaches.
Hear what they’re saying:
"Danica Jensen is revelatory as the kooky Harper, bringing a genuine sadness and hidden strength to the role." -- Provincetown Independent
"Life-changing. Performances are uniformly magnificent… there’s Jensen, who paints a vibrant, pain-filled portrait of Harper’s tortured soul." -- Cape Cod Times.
"Tender, funny, moving; each actor nails it... with Jensen keeping the emotionally disturbed [Harper Pitt} appropriately measured…" -- Provincetown Magazine
"A triumph for… the Provincetown Theater… Danica Jensen, in a deliciously emotionally distanced performance…" -- ptownie
“Get you Better” is a semi finalist in Shore Scripts’ Short film Fund
The script for Danica’s debut short film, Get You Better, placed in the Top 3% of script submissions in Shore Scripts’ Short Film Fund.
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HUDSY Community CONTent fund 2022
Along with her collaborator Karma Masselli, Danica won a HUDSY Community Content Fund Grant for the short documentary that “captures the heart and soul of the Kingston, NY electronics repair shop and it's owner, Burt Penchansky, while showing us why it has become a destination worthy of a pilgrimage…”
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Photo Credit: Bob Tucker of Focalpoint
opening night of “The Humans”
Danica makes her Provincetown Theater debut as Brigid Blake in the Cape Cod premiere of Steven Karam’s Tony Award Winning Best Play The Humans.
Hear what they’re saying:
"Engrossing. Impressive... an amazing performance." -- Cape Cod Times.
"A marvel. Danica Jensen... times her zingers deftly and doesn’t whitewash her character’s flaws." -- Provincetown Independent
"Marvelous. Surprising. Brilliant. Carroll and Jensen perfectly embody the mother-daughter tensions of their characters." -- Provincetown Magazine
"Magnificent. Amazing authenticity. A singularly brilliant production of a singularly brilliant play.... Jensen walks a fine line in her portrayal of Brigid: the smart daughter trying to define who she is in regards to her family, to her boyfriend, and to her world, and she is achingly eager to make this all work." -- ptownie
Take it Away, Cheryl @ Edinburgh Fringe Festival
After a 2-year delay, Take it Away, Cheryl premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Greenside at Infirmary Street, August 2022 to rave reviews.
“Danica Jensen’s direction gives us a gothic sensibility reminiscent of Nightmare Alley… a hell of a ride, and well worth taking” - Neurodiverse Review ★★★★
Broadway World - "First-rate hilarity." ★★★★
Fringe Biscuit - "With tremendous physicality & versatility, Take it Away, Cheryl embodies an impressive range of squabbling characters who, together, depict a tale of love, loss, mental health & paranormal possession leading to self-acceptance in a bizarre carnival hellscape." ★★★★
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director’s lab north in toronto
Danica was invited to participate in the 2022 cohort of Directors Lab North in Toronto, Canada. Directors Lab North was born out of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, with the goal “to foster a national and international exchange between a community of emerging, mid-level and established career directors…”
Over the weeklong lab, Danica had the opportunity to learn from numerous Canadian guest artists including Ronnie Burkett, Jackie Maxwell, Reneltta Arluk, Keith Barker, Jill Carter, Peter Pasyk, Allyson McMackon, Kimberley Rampersad, and Mike Payette, among others.
LIFE IN A DAY 2020 @ SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2021
“On July 25th, people around the world picked up their camera and filmed their day. They captured the ordinary and the extraordinary, the personal and the profound. And now, some of that footage will become part of a documentary film about a single day on earth.”
Produced by Ridley Scott and directed by by Academy Award® winner Kevin Macdonald, the team received over 320,000 total submissions from 192 countries.
Danica is proud to have some of her footage featured in the final cut, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival 2021, and releasing on Youtube February 6th, 2021.
Nine Muses Entertainment: Muse Monday
Episode 4: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Hosted by Nia Farrell
An eight-part IGTV series where Nine Muses Lab alumni share advice and insight about (re)defining “making-it,” generating your own work as a multi-hyphenate in today’s world, continuously growing your artist toolkit, and more!
Danica is a guest on Episode 4, premiering August 10, 2020 at 3PM EDT on Nine Muses’ IGTV.
WATCH PART 1 & PART 2 BELOW: