Who’s Who
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DREW SMITH (Assistant Director) is
a native of New Brunswick, Canada, and
graduated from Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg. He received a BA with majors in
Theater, Economics, and Business Management.
Some of his favorite roles include Brad Ellis in
Gloucester Blue, Eli in Studio@620’s Slipping,
and J.K. Vardaman in Powerstories’ Vote.
VIVIAN E. RODRIGUEZ (Stage Manager)
is a USF Alumni with a B.A. in Theater Arts.
She has stage-managed several productions
throughout the bay area including Gloucester
Blue and Time Stands Still with Jobsite and The
Apocrypha of Theodore Roosevelt at Tampa
Repertory Theater. She is a recipient of a
Theater Tampa Bay Spark Award (2015) for her
work on Bones with the Silver Meteor Gallery
and had the privilege of representing USF at the
international level at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe
Festival. She wants to thank Jobsite for letting
her in on all the fun and her family for their
constant support and love.
BRIAN M. SMALLHEER (Set Designer)
received his education from Harrison Center for
the Visual and Performing Arts, Polk
Community College (Visual Arts), and
University of South Florida (Theatre Design).
Brian has been an artistic associate and designer
for Jobsite since 1999. When not freelancing as
a designer, Brian is the Technical Theatre
Instructor and Technical Director for Tampa
Preparatory School. As a designer for Jobsite,
his work has received two Best of the Bay
awards: Best Lighting Design for Einstein’s
Dreams (2011) and Best Local Set Designer
(2014). He also received Broadway World’s
Best Set Design for Time Stands Still and
Return to the Forbidden Planet. Other select
design credits include A Skull in Connemara,
Lizzie: The Musical, Lebensraum, Annapurna,
Orlando, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Mindgame,
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, boom!, The
Lieutenant of Inishmore, The March of the
Kite iers, Gorey Stories, subUrbia and Dracula.
In what little spare time he has, Brian pursues
his passion for visual arts by doing photography
and painting. More info at bms-designs.com.
DAVID M. JENKINS (Direction, Set,
Sound) is the Producing Artistic Director and
a co-founder of Jobsite. He holds a Ph.D. in
Communication (Performance Studies) from
the University of South Florida, an M.F.A. in
Acting from the University of Florida, and a
B.A. in Theater Performance, also from USF.
He has additionally studied with Moscow
State University, the Russian Academy of
Theatre Arts (GITIS) and the San Francisco
Mime Troupe. In addition to his full-time
work for Jobsite, David teaches in the Honors
College at USF as an adjunct instructor. He has
recently directed productions of Gloucester
Blue, As You Like It, LIZZIE, The Maids,
SILENCE! The Musical, Annapurna (with
Summer Bohnenkamp), and Twelfth Night for
Jobsite as well as Annie Baker’s The Aliens for
Stageworks Theatre. He was directed by Israel
Horovitz in Sins of the Mother (Frankie/Philly
Verga), and has been recently seen in Cloud
Nine (Betty/Edward), A Skull in Connemara
(Tom Hanlon), Time Stands Still (James), The
Hound of the Baskervilles (Dr. Watson) and The
Lonesome West (Coleman). The latter earned
him a Theatre Tampa Bay nomination for
Outstanding Lead Actor, recognition as a Top
9 performance of 2013 by Creative Loa ng’s
Mark Leib, and the Best Actor Award in CL’s
Best of the Bay Reader’s Poll. He was the 2014
recipient of the Best Director Award from CL’s
Reader’s Poll and Best Director of a Musical in
the BroadwayWorld Tampa Regional Awards;
he also won the 2015 BroadwayWorld Regional
Award for Best Actor (Times Stands Still).
Creative Loa ng has twice honored him as both
Best Artistic Director and Best Actor. David has
published articles in the scholarly journals Text
& Performance Quarterly, Liminalities, and
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. He
lives in Tampa Heights in a neat old house with
his rad wife and a mess of critters.