Pacific Renaissance Theatre

Jennifer Ciceri Doyle began her artistic life as a singer, having earned a B.Mus. from U Vic majoring in Voice. Performing with the Pacific Opera chorus as well as playing Mrs. Peachum in the U Vic Opera Ensemble's production of Threepenny Opera deepened her love of the Theatrical Experience, and convinced her there was more to be learned; accordingly she studied in a conservatory style training program at George Brown College Theatre School in Toronto where there thrived a strong classical foundation with training in voice, speech, dialect, movement, dance, theatre history, storytelling, and foundations of acting technique. During her time in Toronto, she was fortunate to work with some terrifically interesting people on many fascinating projects, including playing Audrey in the “unrehearsed” As You Like It at duMaurier World Stage, the new Canadian work Not Long Now under the direction of Diana Leblanc, and producing and directing a production of Vaclav Havel’s Unveiling at the Toronto Fringe. After more than twenty fulfilling years in Toronto, she moved back to her hometown of Victoria, where the artistic community was growing exponentially. 

While supporting her acting and directing habit by working at the Victoria Film Festival as well as dispatching trucks for a local towing company, Ms. Ciceri Doyle worked with the Victoria Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Langham Court Theatre, and also in the Victoria Fringe in a memorable production of Lady Audley’s Secret directed by talented local artist Wendy Merk. Ms. Ciceri Doyle is currently a Master’s Candidate in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at University of Victoria. Her research interests include medieval reading and the “fourfold sense of scripture” or Quadriga and its influence on audience reception and interpretation of public readings, storytelling, and theatre; Catholic and Protestant social, political, and religious influences on the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as well as on the work of Caroline playwrights such as Ford and Webster; and Early Modern English orthography and punctuation and their disputed influences on performance practice. She continues to perform, coach, teach, and direct, and is crackerjack at dialects.