Jackie Jeffries is a producer, associate producer at AUDELCO.  She has been general manager, production manager and production stage manager.  Some of the theaters she has produced shows for are the National Black Theatre, Negro Ensemble Company, Rites and Reason Theatre, New Federal Theatre, Schomburg Theatre, Apollo Theatre, Olympic Theatre, Billy Holiday Theatre, Lincoln Center, American Theatre of Actors, 45^th Street Theatre, Aaron David Hall, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Take Wing And Soar theatre (TWAS), to name a few.  Some of the shows she produced are:  THE LEGACY (1987), FRUITS OF MISS MORNING (1988), DON’T EXPLAIN (1992), SONG OF SHEBA (1992), DO WOP LOVE (1993), THE SPIDER WALTZ (1994),  GOING TO MEET THE LIGHT (1994), AMERICAN GUERILLA (1995), RETURN OF ELIJAH (1997), ED BULLINS RETROSPECTIVE (1999), THE TRIAL OF ONE SHORT-SIGHTED BLACK WOMAN VS MAMMY LOUISE AND SAFREETA MAE (1999), THE TAKING OF MISS JANIE (1999), THE GUEST AT CENTRAL PARK WEST (2009), GUSSIE MAE IN AMERICA (2002), MOMS & HER LADIES (2003), BILLIE HOLIDAY (YESTERDAYS) (2004), OROONOKO (2004), OFF SPRING (2006), DARKER FACE OF THE EARTH (2006), MEDEA (2006), BLACK MAN RISING (2007), PECONG (2007), BILLIE HOLIDAY STORY (2008), PHIL’S SPEAKEASY (2008), WEBEIME (2008), MANNEQUIN DIARIES (2021), and GONG LUM’S LEGACY (2022).  She was a production manager at AUDELCO (Audience Development Committee), an organization that acknowledges and awards Black Theatre and its artists in New York City, and she is now its president since 2021.  

Jeffries grew up in Brooklyn.  She loved dancing, and her supportive mother enrolled her in the La Rocque Bey School of Dance.  She wanted to be a ballerina and received early admission into the Dance Program at Erasmus High School.  Her mother was a nurse and went back to school for social work.  Because she was told she had an affinity for medicine Jeffries found various jobs working in hospitals.  She never left the arts however.  A friend discovered the National Black Theater and suggested she become involved there.  Dr. Barbara Ann Teer ran the theater with a philosophy of transition and positive actions.  She believed business and real estate should support the arts and managed the physical building in which the theater was housed.  Dr. Teer’s brilliant philosophy changed the way Jeffries looked at life and brought her back to theater.  Jackie Jeffries worked her way through theaters all over the country producing shows and producing tours around the world.  As the president of AUDELCO she is currently responsible for seeing and acknowledging all the work done by Black theater artists and, as part of the Coalition of Theaters of Color, she is responsible for funding possibilities in that community.