Jeanie Hackett has taught scene study and acting technique for over 10 years in New York and Los Angeles, and has conducted seminars on acting in Chekhov’s plays at colleges and universities across the country.  She is the author of The Actor’s Chekhov and Toward Mastery, both based on the work of the Williamstown Theater Festival’s late artistic director and founder, Nikos Psacharopoulos.  In Los Angeles she is the Co-Artistic Director of the Antaeus Company, and the head of the Antaeus Academy, a training program in classical theater for emerging professional actors. As an actress she’s played lead roles on Broadway, including Stella to Blythe Danner’s Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and has worked extensively off-Broadway and at major regional theaters across the country.  She studied acting at Circle in the Square, NYU and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.  She spent many seasons with the Williamstown Theater Festival, where she received her equity card, and was cast by Tennessee Williams in her first equity role as Jane in Vieux Carre at the Tennessee Williams Theater in Key West. In Los Angeles she has appeared in leading roles in classical and contemporary plays at South Coast Rep. (Old Times); The Pasadena Playhouse (Arms and the Man, How the Other Half Loves); the Odyssey Theater (The Greeks, Black Box); the Canon Theater (The Vagina Monologues); the Matrix Theater (The Seagull, Ovation Award); Light (Theater @ Boston Court); Phaedra (Getty Villa); and with Antaeus, the award winning Pera Palas and Tonight at 8:30. On television she recurred on Judging Amy and guest-starred on Criminal Minds, Medium, The L Word, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, Boston Public, Chicago Hope, and many others. In film she's featured in King of California, Jane Street, Sgt. Bilco, Henry Jaglom's Shopping, and the upcoming Kids in America with Topher Grace and Ticket to Ride with Carol Burnett and Michael Keaton. "Jeanie Hackett as the lovesick, snuff-snorting Masha delivers an intelligent performance of consummate dramatic depth and power, aware that, in Chekhov, character and fate are one ..." - LA Weekly, The Seagull (Matrix Theater) "Hackett is perfect as the maniacally depressed Rene, shooting her well-timed sarcasm like missiles through whatever optimisim her spouse (Ayre Gross) may offer.  She is a constant study of hilarious disbelief and outrage ..." - Variety, Black Box (Odyssey Theater)