Associate General Manager
Jala Jackson is an actress, director and writer from Detroit, MI. Starting at the age of 6, Jala found her passion for entertainment at a very young age. She continued to follow acting well into college and graduated with her BFA in Theatre from Michigan State University in May 2020. She has worked on various plays onstage and backstage as well as film projects. She played Dot in Dot’s Home with A Host of People, E.M. Lewis in The Gun Show, which was a one woman show tour she did in partnership with the Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, and most recently Poppy in upcoming film, Scruggs. She has directed several shows for the Detroit Youth Choir Performing Arts Company including Four Little Girls: Birmingham, Ruby: The Ruby Bridges Story, Once on this Island, Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough and Oil Sheen. She has also written and directed two stage plays, E-Race-Sure, which is a youth play set in a future where Black History Month doesn’t exist and Party in the Park, a play about the 1963 Birmingham Children’s Crusade. She has worked as the Director of Theatre for the world-renowned Detroit Youth Choir Performing Arts Company since 2020 where she received the Spirit of Detroit Award for her involvement and dedication to Detroit youth and joined the Detroit Public Theatre in the Fall of 2024.
