Jenn August

Composer Librettist Lyricist Playwright

Jenn August has been performing as a singer-songwriter since her early 20's and has self-released four albums on her own label. She decided to learn how to play piano because she knew someday she would write a musical. Many years later, Jenn turned her children's book Jean & The Wonderful Idea Machine into an original musical. The musical had a staged reading at the Portland Musical Theater Company in 2018. When Covid Jenn was looking for spaces to start a musical theater company and decided to take her musical Jean & The Wonderful Idea Machine online. Since zoom was not reliable for live performances Jenn decided to shoot the musical on zoom and make it a movie. She is using her musical to raise funds for donorschoose.og to help students get digital devices that their families cannot afford. Jenn is excited to spread the growth mindset message through her musical. Growth mindset is the belief that intelligence can grow versus a fixed mindset is a belief that intelligence exists at birth and cannot be grown. https://thewonderfulideamachine.com

 

Musical Reviews:

"My husband and I were both moved to tears more than once during the musical. It’s a beautiful story of hope that is so needed in our times! Thank you, Beth Love"

"It was very well done considering it is on Zoom. The young lady has a great voice and her dad as well. This movie is going places." - Margaret Ford

"It really has a beautiful message we all need right now."- Jeanne Sullivan Billeci