Jamie Virostko
No Mean City: Baltimore 1966
Glenda Dickler, Postal Carrier
Jamie Virostko is a Baltimore based theater artist and writer. She recently appeared as Woman in Strand Theater’s The Long Christmas Ride Home, Mrs. Chisholm in The Petrified Forest, and Hanna Kennedy in Chesapeake Shakespeare’s Mary Stuart.
In 2024, she directed a staged reading for the annual Baltimore Playwrights Festival. Her regional short film credits include Tyndall Typewriters, A Raven’s Call, and Gods of Cable City. While living in Charlottesville, Virginia, she became an avid hiker, managed elections (including two Presidentials), and performed in local productions of Pipeline, The Glass Menagerie, Seven Homeless Mammoths, and A Delicate Balance and directed Twelfth Night. A dozen years in Los Angeles involved running a small pet-sitting business and directing several new plays, including Say Goodbye Toto (Ark), Franklin and Jefferson (Greystone Mansion), and The Girl Who Would Be King.
Jamie’s original play, The Outskirts of Paradise, premiered at the Met Theater in East Hollywood. Her acting career began in Chicago with roles in The Mill on the Floss, Standing on my Knees, Alarms and Excursions, and The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol. She appeared in The Death of Bessie Smith at the Goodman Theater and received Gay Chicago Magazine’s After Dark Award for her performance in Journeys. Jamie grew up in rural Indiana and trained at Mountview Theatre School in London.