A post college move to San Francisco led to a decade of training with Studio A.C.T., the Jean Shelton Theater as well as a two year Meisner intensive. She spent much of the time in San Francisco performing, with some of her favorite roles including Catherine in Proof, Lisa in Match, and Abby in Fiction. Jennifer gave up her rent controlled apartment in 2012 to move to the Big Apple where she fell in love with improv and studied with the Upright Citizens Brigade, The People's Improv Theater and The Annoyance Theater. Since then she has been performing in theaters all over the city, with weekly shows at the People’s Improv Theater where she also teaches various improv, acting, “building your solo show” courses as well as leads corporate workshops. In her spare time, she directs theater and travels abroad to teach and perform internationally. Recent favorite stage roles include Logan, the “woke” drama teacher attempting a culturally sensitive play about Thanksgiving in Playwrights Horizons’ brilliant comedy The Thanksgiving Play, and then reprising that role again at Cincinnati Playhouse; playing Lana Sherwood and a host of characters in Joe Landry’s brilliant adaptation It’s a Wonderful Life: A Life Radio Play; a grieving mother in Valer, a Texan family drama about addiction and of course originating the role of Gail in Maybe Tomorrow, the award winning NYC Fringe show based on the true story of a woman who sat on a toilet for years....literally. Stage Buddy remarked, "Bareilles's honest and delicate performance makes it easy for us to believe".
