Jennifer Chase is an American singer/songwriter, playwright/performer and producer. She will read from her latest work, I Can Smell You From Here, on Saturday, December 2nd at 5 PM in the Main Auditorium F-128.

Her thirty years of experience creating and collaborating have taken her performances from Jacksonville; Florida, to NYC, to Nantes; France, to Dakar; Senegal and back.

Her works include dramas, musicals, comedies, a one-woman show, six original albums of music, and a new memoir.

She has performed her original music in festivals in the U.S, France, and Senegal west Africa. She’s opened for Grammy winning artists including The Doobie Brothers, The Rippingtons, and Lisa Loeb. Her plays and excerpts have been performed at home in north Florida, Nantes, France and New York’s Davenport Theatre.

Her production company aJENNda productions develops works that reflect her fascination with people, their invincible hearts, and shared humanity at home and abroad.

Jennifer has written and studied at ACI Baobab Center in Dakar; Senegal, University of New Orleans Summer Writing Program in Madrid; Spain, and in residence including the Jacksonville Historical Society, MOSH Jacksonville, CAP 21 Musical Theatre Conservatory, NYC, and Arquetopia International Artists Residency in Oaxaca; Mexico. In 2024, she will return as an alumnus to Arquetopia’s Peruvian residency in Cusco while on sabbatical.

She holds a BA in International Studies and French from the University of North Florida and an MFA in Creative Writing/Playwriting from the University of New Orleans and is a Professor of Writing and Humanities at Florida State College Jacksonville where she serves as Faculty Adviser to The Experience Arts and Literature Magazine.

She counts her students, fellow artists, and family as the essence of her music, love, and inspiration.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival X, a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville, will be held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 1, 2, and 3, 2023 at FSCJ’s Kent Campus, 3939 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL, 32205.

JaxbyJax is grateful to our generous sponsors: FSCJ, Alternate Roots, Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, 904WARD, Chamblin’s Bookmine and Uptown Café, Delegal & Poindexter, Andres Rojas, Jacksonville Literary Arts Alliance, Babs’ Lab, JaxPsychoGeo, San Marco Books and More, Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.