Jayne Taini is THRILLED TO BACK WITH THESE WOMEN to tell these stories. Taini moved to LA with The Cider House Rules (Mark Taper Forum-Garland Award). Opened the Wallis Annenberg with Parfumerie, at Circle X The Brothers Karamazov (LADCC Award), Lost in Yonkers (La Mirada) and in Uncle Vanya (Pasadena Playhouse) LA Times Chief Theatre Critic Charles McNulty cited her performance as Marina deserving of a “Stanislavsky Award ...(she) conveyed for me the holy substance of this beautiful play.” Locally also appeared in many shows with EST LA, Circle X, Evidence Room, Moving Arts and Echo Theatre. Regional: The Normal Heart (Pioneer Square) running concurrently with the original run at The Public in NYC, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Third Rail) Outside Mullingar (B Street), A Doll’s House, When We Were Married (Seattle Rep), Broadway, Oktoberfest (Empty Space), Snow Falling on Cedars, Doubt (Portland Center Stage), A Life with Father (Denver Center), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Hartford Stage), Enchanted April (Pasadena & Cleveland Play House). Favorite roles: Mother Courage (Canadian Fringe); Mrs. Alving, Ghosts, Bottom & Demetruis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recent TV/Film: Emmy award winning The PITT season 2, I’m Beginning to See the Light, opposite Jack Huston & Abby Cornish and Big Sky and The Resident. Notable: recurring as Marsha on Station 19, her indelible, heart-wrenching performance as Doris in Unbelievable opposite Toni Collettea and Merritt Weaver, Harriet Greenberg on Ray Donovan opposite Liev Schreiber, Eloise in ABC’s Dustin Black’s When We Rise and Viv on Shameless. Film roles include her “incredibly raw, vulnerable performance as Dena” in Sanzaru, Isabel’s Garden as Grace opposite Karen David and in Ben Affleck’s The Way Back. She is really excited about 3 projects making the festival rounds: Short Films: Ownership and The Stairs plus the pilot Bad Alice. Voice over credits: podcasts: Blackout and Captain Fall Video Games: The Walking Dead, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Thunderbolt, Fallout 76 and Live Capture Indiana Jones: The Great Escape. Animation: Air Bender: Legend of Cora, and Captain Fall and . Over twenty dubbing jobs for Netflix, Amazon, and Disney.