MUSIC + THEATRE & HOT JAZZ
Ellen Warkentine plays traditional jazz and creates untraditional music theatre.
Ellen performs traditional jazz on clarinet, voice, and piano, currently performing at Jazz Kitchen Downtown Disney, The Exhibition Room speakeasy, and at The Wicked Wolf in Long Beach. Ellen frequently performs with The Naughty Doings, an LA-based all-gal vaudevillian trad jazz band. She began a monthly jam session at Young Ethel’s in Park Slope with her Brooklyn-based collective The Small Dog Jazz Society.
Favorite gigs include playing with the swing dance group The Findyhoppers at The Coney Island Mermaid Parade, and for a swing dance event at the prestigious Salmagundi Club in Manhattan.
Ellen holds an MA in immersive music theatre from Gallatin NYU. Her melodic theatrical work is inspired by avant-pop and early jazz. Her most recent production, “Nin Descending a Staircase,” (2023) was a site-specific immersive adaptation of the works of Anaïs Nin staged in the historic site of Nin’s old printing press in Greenwich Village. Ellen is a long-time collaborator with the award-winning “junkyard opera” company Four Larks Theatre. She is co-creator and composer of the absurd “fauxpera” LOLPERA and has written music and music directed for Kinetic Cabaret Productions, 7 Stages Theatre in Atlanta, Sacred Fools, The Garage Theatre, The Long Beach Playhouse, Upright Citizens Brigade, and Four Clowns, among others.
Ellen is also a songwriter, novelty, educational, and otherwise. She is a proud teaching artist who has spent 15 years teaching theatre and music in communities of LAUSD.
She is currently developing a music theatre setting of Rilke’s Book of Hours and a interactive album of original music.
You can read the CV and EPK here.
MUSIC + THEATRE & HOT JAZZ : Ellen Warkentine plays traditional jazz and creates untraditional music theatre.
Ellen performs traditional jazz on clarinet, voice, and piano, currently performing at Jazz Kitchen Downtown Disney, The Exhibition Room speakeasy, and at The Wicked Wolf in Long Beach. Ellen frequently performs with The Naughty Doings, an LA-based all-gal vaudevillian trad jazz band. She began a monthly jam session at Young Ethel’s in Park Slope with her Brooklyn-based collective The Small Dog Jazz Society.
Favorite gigs include playing with the swing dance group The Findyhoppers at The Coney Island Mermaid Parade, and for a swing dance event at the prestigious Salmagundi Club in Manhattan.
Ellen holds an MA in immersive music theatre from Gallatin NYU. Her melodic theatrical work is inspired by avant-pop and early jazz. Her most recent production, “Nin Descending a Staircase,” (2023) was a site-specific immersive adaptation of the works of Anaïs Nin staged in the historic site of Nin’s old printing press in Greenwich Village. Ellen is a long-time collaborator with the award-winning “junkyard opera” company Four Larks Theatre. She is co-creator and composer of the absurd “fauxpera” LOLPERA and has written music and music directed for Kinetic Cabaret Productions, 7 Stages Theatre in Atlanta, Sacred Fools, The Garage Theatre, The Long Beach Playhouse, Upright Citizens Brigade, and Four Clowns, among others.
Ellen is also a songwriter, novelty, educational, and otherwise. She is a proud teaching artist who has spent 15 years teaching theatre and music in communities of LAUSD.
She is currently developing a music theatre setting of Rilke’s Book of Hours and a interactive album of original music.
You can read the CV and EPK here.
