About Jazimina

Jazimina Creamer-MacNeil is a director, creative producer, singing actor, educator, and wild blueberry picker rooted in the beautiful and artistically fertile Monadnock region of New Hampshire, the ancestral homelands of the Wabanaki. Her work focuses on how live performance can be a stitch in the great reweaving of humanity back into reciprocal kinship with the rest of life on this good, green Earth.

Jazimina has conceived, directed, and performed in a number of interdisciplinary works which explore the intersection of music, storytelling, and the natural world: Danika the Rose, an interplay of Dvorak’s sublime Moravian Duets with an original eco-fairytale written by Jazimina in collaboration with master storyteller Odds Bodkin, and an orchestral version of this project, Love Like Water, produced in collaboration with conductor Eric Jacobsen and composer Lembit Beecher. In collaboration with the Harris Center for Conservation Education and Electric Earth Concerts, Jazimina created two site-specific musical hikes: The Singing Stream, which sets Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin alongside a real-life mill stream, and In Fine Feather, which invites walkers into a world of music and poetry inspired by birdsong, accompanied by the sights and sounds of the birds themselves. She has also collaborated with the DreamYard Project and Brooklyn Art Song Society to create Frozen Tears, a concert of artwork and spoken word inspired by the alienation in Schubert’s Winterreise as it resonates with young artivists from the South Bronx. Currently in development is Root Song, a collaboration with Grammy-award winning ensemble Roomful of Teeth which interweaves live vocal chamber music and storytelling to create an embodied experience of listening to the wisdom of trees. Inspired by recent scientific inquiries into plant sentience and mycorrhizal networks, whose findings resonate with Traditional Ecological Knowledge acquired by Indigenous cultures over millennia, Root Song asks the question: how can the deep listening of a musical and storytelling experience invite us to once again hear the voices of the more-than-human world, starting with trees?

Jazimina is a company member of the award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop, with whom she regularly performs and devises immersive, experimental, and community-based works.

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music, Jazimina spent glorious summers singing and studying at Marlboro Music, the Tanglewood Music Center, Ravinia, the Aspen Music Festival, SongFest and the Schubert Institute.