Jacinda Ratcliffe is a Chicago-based Performing Artist & Choreographer

She is represented by Big Mouth Talent

Current & Recent Productions


ICE CREAM CIRCUS - Lookingglass Theatre Company

August 2025

Actor

Lookingglass Theatre and Actors Gymnasium team up once to again, as part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks, to bring you an original, circus-infused story that showcases the transformative magic of a simple act of kindness. Conveyed without spoken language, and through dance, clown, and circus, Ice Cream Circus! is designed for all generations and for all language backgrounds.


FACING - Lucky Plush Productions

Previous Work-in-Progress showing June 2025
Upcoming Door County Kinetic Arts Festival Sept. 2025

Ensemble member

Inspired by an early Eugene O’Neill play, FACING takes up forms of contemporary masking in highly mediated relationships, resulting in a strange farce of mixed up identities and a literal and metaphorical missing body. This residency is supported by the Arts Labs research project at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society and Theater & Performance Studies at the University of Chicago.


CIRCUS QUIXOTE - Lookingglass Theatre Company

Previously on Lookingglass mainstage Feb-March 2025
Upcoming dates 2026 to be announced

Understudy Antoina/others & Dulcinea/others

Somewhere in La Mancha there lived a man who read so many books that his brains dried up…Saddle up with Lookingglass as we go tiltingly, acrobatically into the dreamy madness of Don Quixote and his impossible folly-filled quest to bring good-deed doing back into the world— whether the world wants it or not!


EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING - First Floor Theater

May-June 2025

Actor - Jane Jr.

Photography by Michael Brosilow

Winters keep getting worse in Evanston, IL, where salt truck drivers Peter and Basil battle the ice and snow and pass the time with jokes and stories. But what’s with this creeping sense of dread? Is it because their boss Maiworm has noble visions of new green technology that would make their jobs obsolete? Or is there a more terrifying warning calling out from under these roads? At least they have each other, right?

Pulitzer Prize finalist and Succession writer Will Arbery (Plano, Heroes of the Fourth Turning), confronts humanity’s darkest fears with humor, warmth and the fortitude of municipal public servants in this play about climate and change.

Recent Interviews


American Theatre Magazine Interview

Interview

Nice Recovery Podcast

Episode 7: The Choreographer Moving Us in Mysterious Ways

The Daily Northwestern

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