Jazimina MacNeil is a mezzo-soprano, creative producer, writer, actor, and wild blueberry picker rooted in the beautiful and artistically fertile Monadnock region of New Hampshire. She has conceived, directed, and performed in a number of interdisciplinary works which explore the intersection of music, storytelling, and the natural world. Projects currently in development are an immersive theatrical retelling of Guantanamo survivor Mansoor Adayfi’s heartrending, humorous, and harrowing stories, as well as a site-specific performance using live music and storytelling to make audible Dr. Suzanne Simard’s groundbreaking research on how forests function as complex, caring communities. Jazimina is a member of the award-winning Firelight Theatre Workshop‘s ensemble, 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.