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Jill Rittinger

Jill Rittinger (she/her) Is an Actor, Intimacy Director and Adjunct Professor at RIT and UR teaching Acting for Camera. Previous intimacy direction credits include RENT and Cabaret at Blackfriars Theatre, Proof at SUNY Brockport, Little Rock at SUNY Geneseo, The Nether, Macbeth, Freshwater,Concord Floral and Thy Name is Woman at RIT/NTID Performing Arts, Julius Caesar, Venus in Fur, Only the Dead, Spring Awakening and Tartuffe with The Company Theatre, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,The Moors and Describe the Night with Out of Pocket Productions, and Into the Woods with Pittsford Musicals. A partial list of acting credits include Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, Lady M in Macbeth, Arkadina in The Seagull (The Company Theatre) Henrietta Swan Leavitt in Silent Sky, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Catherine in Proof, Laura in The Glass Menagerie, Katharine Hepburn in the one-woman show: Tea at Five in both 2007 and 2011, (Blackfriars Theatre) Anna in Closer, Angel and Others in Angels in A: Millenium Approaches, (Method Machine) and Miss Fischer in A Picasso with John Hertzler (Geva Theatre Center Play Reading). A few commercial credits include: URMC, I Love New York, Planned Parenthood, and campaign spots for Monroe County Executive, Adam Bello. Education: SUNY Fredonia-Theatre Arts, Circle in the Square Theatre School-Acting Intensive Program, Nazareth University- Masters in Adolescent Inclusive Education. She is a certified Consent-Forward Artist with IDC. As a standardized patient at URMC, she enjoys the opportunity to blend acting, education, and consent. Jill lives in Victor with her husband Andy, sons Gabriel and Rowan, Bernedoodle, Mika, cats Archie, Shadow and Petunia, and several plants and gardens.