Jamie Virostko
No Mean City: Baltimore 1966
Glenda Dickler, Postal Carrier
Jamie Virostko is a theater artist, writer, and actor who most recently appeared as Mrs. Chisholm in The Petrified Forest and as Hanna Kennedy in Chesapeake Shakespeare’s Mary Stuart. In 2024, she directed a staged reading of Women and Money by Jerry Slaff 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 appeared in local productions of Pipeline, The Glass Menagerie, Seven Homeless Mammoths and A Delicate Balance. She directed Twelfth Night.
While living in Los Angeles, she directed numerous new plays. Her original play, The Outskirts of Paradise, premiered at the Met Theater, followed by The Congresswomen, a historical drama about Helen Gahagan Douglas and Claire Boothe Luce.
Jamie began her acting career in Chicago with leading roles in several plays 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.