Jasmine Dorothy Haefner is an internationally performing comedic actress, writer, and producer for stage and screen based in NYC — and frankly, you should be ashamed you haven’t heard of her. She even has a credit on SNL! That’s right, WHAT a comedy credit… as Kim Kardashian’s photo double. (You have got to stop telling people that part, DAMMIT!) Her work is fast-paced, madcap, heightened, and usually funny on purpose.
She’s currently developing the TV series NOT DEAD, a genre-bending mockumentary loosely based on her life with Crohn’s Disease. Her one-act play 2-Faces premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after a London preview, boasting crowds six times the festival average and earning great reviews (“If you fancy a dose of what the Fringe is really about, get really drunk and go see this show…”) Her film 28 is Great, a meta-mockumentary short about a film crew rife with chaos, which she wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, playing all five roles, won or received nominations for multiple festival awards, including Best Solo Performance, Best Actress, Best Comedy, and Overall Audience Awards.
After 10 years in the entertainment industry, she’s done almost every job except light fire to the hoop the lion jumps through. Come see her work and you’re guaranteed “...eccentric and arguably refreshing new writing,” “...multiple characters with wit and physical energy,” and stories that are “...thrilling and provocative.” Next up: The Counterfeit Moron at Lighthouse International Film Festival (June) and Retrospective at Broadway Bound Theatre Festival (August).
The Counterfeit Moron at Chain Theatre Festival
The Counterfeit Moron, a new short play by acclaimed critic and satirist Joe Queenan, premiere at the Chain Theatre Festival in February 2025. After selling out the first three shows, The Counterfeit Moron was granted an encore performance, which also sold out. The show stars Tut Gregory, Ed Altman and Jasmine Dorothy Haefner.
Don’t be worried if you missed it… Following it’s staged run, it was shot as a double short-film. Both versions are shot in one-take, relying on the actors prowess from their staged run, The differ in that one version is shot as a straight film, and the second version is shot as a mockumentary.
The standard version has it’s first screening at the Lighthouse International Film Festival in June, 2025.
Staged Reading of Retrospective, a New Play
Retrospective, written by T.J. Elliot and produced by Knowledge Workings Theatre Co., had its first staged reading in January, 2025 at Theatre Lab. It’s a beautiful one-act play that concerns a famous painter who walks onto a white-stage encircled by empty frames and is confronted by his first wife, who insists that he is dead and the paintings inside the frames, which he cannot yet see, are a retrospective of his work. Throughout the play he and the other characters, which includes the critic who spent her entire life harassing his work and a painter-acquaintance who the art works annoying insists is his "contemporary", try to let go of their deep-set and unyielding grudges towards each other to move on to "next", whatever that may be.
Following the reading, Retrospective was accepted into the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, where it will have 3 fully staged shows as it works to secure a co-producer for a longer run.
Top Hate, a feature length film
Jasmine had the opportunity of a lifetime to play Carmen Miranda in the feature length film Top Hate, by notable satirist, columnist and critic, Joe Queenan. The film, set in 1940s gold-age Hollywood centers around the mystery — Who’s trying to take out Fred Astoria. The film is currently in post-production and the above is photo from set back in May 2024.
2-Faces
In this map-cap comedy, two Interpol agents investigate a series of international art thefts and, guised from the world on two fronts, navigate the murky waters of subterfuge in a family forged after fleeing from foster care.
2-Faces Premiered at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 at Greenside @ Infirmary Street, following a preview in London at Barons Court Theatre.
Reviewers Said…
★★★★
“...the show is consistently engaging, with the lines between truth and deception blurry to begin with and utterly erased by the end."
-London Theatre 1
“...the pair [cycle] through multiple characters with wit and physical energy."
-Scotsman
"I found myself laughing excessively"…"a piece of eccentric and arguably fresh new writing"…"The play is bold in its intended zany comedy style"
- Kat Masterson
"Don't miss the chance to witness this unique and engaging performance sure to leave you entertained and wanting more."
- Lady Anne Duncan, AWAZ 107.2
"it’s the kind of thing you might expect to find on a streaming service split over a few episodes"…"solid acting"…"clever idea and well directed"
-Darkchat
“The pair exuded such a delightful chemistry… with its solid acting and strong foundations for poignant character arcs, it has the ingredients for a thrilling and provocative play.”
- The Indiependent
Audiences Said…
“Most impressive show I’ve watched at Fringe.”
“Hassan Hope and Jasmine Dorothy Haefner take on an Olympian task, playing so many roles in rapid succession — with character, costume and accent changes — that I lost count. This was a feat of virtuosity and endurance, and a celebration of what theater can do, that real life can’t… I’ll be following these two.”
“A mad-cap comedy duo, working through a cockney-rhyming tale where no one is to be trusted. Two talented actors navigate through accents, dialect and multiple characters in quite a pace. Shame it was their last show.”
“2 Faces is a very entertaining play!! The performance was very fun and fast paced. The acting was phenomenal with both actors bringing authentic character and energy to multiple roles!!! I thoroughly enjoyed the entertaining storyline!!”
The Final Numbers…
at Ed Fringe 2023, average audience attendance was 4 audience members per show.
We are extremely grateful and proud to say thaT during our 22 show run, our average audience was 24 people per show, 6 times higher than the fringe average.
We would like to thank GReenside Venues, So-PR, our team at large and the over 500 audience members who came to see us perform at our previews and premiere-run.
In this mockumentary, a film crew films a film crew shooting a mystery project in a New York City apartment, and their set is absolutely rife with interpersonal conflict. The catch is that there are five characters; a director, actor, boom operator, cinematographer, and assistant director, and I play all of them.
28 is Great Screened on Nov, 2022 in Miami Beach, FL
28 is Great receives 4th official selection at NYC Webfest in Miami Beach, as well as nominations for both Best Solo Performance and Best Actress in Short Film.
Spank Patrol Premiered at Club Video in Oct, 2022
Written, Directed and Edited by Kevin Ralston, Spank Patrol premiered to a packed house at Club Video in Brooklyn, NY and was later featured in Vulture as “This Month’s Other Must-See Comedy Shorts”. Pictured below is Jasmine and Kevin following the screening.
Premiere of Is It So Crazy To Dream It? in Oct, 2022
Jasmine created a new work for this event hosted by En Garde Arts and curated by Gabriel Torres. Is It So Crazy to Dream It? focuses on memory her being proposed to by a man she just met at a wedding in India, and saying “Yes.” It was a joke though, right?
The piece explores the boundaries we place on ourselves and our dreams, while defiantly letting the world at large tell us “no” while we defiantly continue to say “Yes.” Jasmine intends to develop the piece from is current 19 minute run time into a short one woman show.
Fellow filmmakers Sean Glass, Lea Pfandler, Edna Luise Biesold, Daniel Burity, Alex Rouleau, Shannon Sullivan, Heather Luscombe and event organizers Chip Parham and Nancy Pop.
28 is Great Screened in Oct, 2022 at Artists and Beers
28 is Great receives 4th screening at Artists and Beers, produced monthly by Chip Parham and Nancy Pop at Easy Lover in Brooklyn, NY.
Check out an excerpt below from the Q&A afterwards!
28 is Great Screened on June 5th, 2022 on Long Beach Island, NJ
28 is Great receives 3rd official selection at 14th Annual Lighthouse International Film Festival. Their program includes Sundance and SXSW titles as Headliners and acclaimed international films in the Spotlight section. Also, Lighthouse put its dark side on display in a new installment dedicated to genre, horror, sci-fi, and fantastic movies entitled DARKHOUSE. The festival will took place for the 14th consecutive year on Long Beach Island (LBI), NJ, from Thursday, June 2nd through Sunday, June 5th.
Check Out Lighthouse’s Website Here!
May 2022 at Theater for The New City
The Oracle, written by Joe Queenan and T.J. Elliott, opens for an equity showcase run in The Cino Theater at Theater for the New City in NYC. Micky Cohen, The Oracle Leo Sweeney’s number two and head of Information Services, gets caught in the rages of high-caliber office politics in this new two act play.
Theater Scene
Opening Night Review!
The familiar cutthroat terrain of Executive Suite, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Network and 30 Rock is enjoyably trod here again, with a dartboard cleverly proving to be instrumental…. Their adept writing marks The Oracle as a sound comedy.… The gray-haired, suited up, animated Ed Altman energizes the show with his winning wacky portrayal of the CEO, channeling J.B. Biggley, Ted Baxter and Howard Beale. Jasmine Dorothy Haefner and Hassan Hope as well as the aforementioned Alyssa Poon and Patrick Smith all offer vivid characterizations as the other archetypical office figures…
Broadway World
Although The Oracle tells a fictional story of a CEO pitting employees against each other in a kind of survival of the most fit for corporate America, it's a funny journey into the office, very different from the TV show of that name. This production at TNC is a powerful, new play ... writ large, not about the American dream, as Death of a Salesman is, but the largely unmined humor of American corporate reality. How to succeed in business without really knowing," Elliott jokes about an apt subtitle. "The ability to sell themselves and sell their ideas makes them successful.
The Village Sun
“The story is about how, in business, one succeeds not by doing what the textbook will tell you,'‘ Elliott explained. In a world where business is rarely viewed as fodder for laughter, Queenan in the pages (and digital views) of The Wall Street Journal and now with Elliott on stage finds humor and heart. Rather than wielding weapons, the characters wield wit as they struggle for power and position.”
Premiered at the 5th Annual Lee Strasberg Film Festival
in March 2022
A caretake enlists the help of fellow friends to tend to a magic tree that provides all of the food for New York City grocery stores and restaurants.
Midwest Regional Premiere
ShowPlace ICON Theatre in St. Louis Park, MN
A conflict ridden crew attempts to film a mystery project knowing the only people they have to rely on is themselves.
Midwest Regional Premiere at Twin Cities Film Fest
28 is Great had its midwestern premiere at the Twin Cities Film Fest in October, 2021 at the ShowPlace ICON Theatre in St. Louis Park, MN.
Red Carpet Interview with Charla Marie Bailey
World Premiere
28 IS GREAT Wins An Audience Award THE HONORABLE MENTION FOR BEST COMEDY SHORT AT ITS WORLD PREMIERE IN NEW YORK CITY AT ASTORIA FILM FESTIVAL in October, 2021
Film Festivals Live asked me to attend an interview with Nina Fiore, Founding Director of Astoria Film Festival, about my work on 28 is Great.
A teenage girl finds the strength to break free from her home and her extremely controlling mother.
Premiering at Astoria Film Festival on Oct. 1st, 2021.
A quiet woman at her breaking point seeks help for something she can barely speak of.
The Angel of Death pays a visit to audiences in Dust Vanishes Away at The Loisaida Center. Will they be taken? Has she been with them all the time? Will she always be? Should you be afraid?
Watch our interview with The Loisaida Inc. Center here.
Show to ran from May 2021 to August 2021 at Teatro Circulo in NYC.
An uptight mother of two joins her best friends on Zoom for their annual magic mushroom trip.
“Highly entertaining, vivid, brilliantly executed… vibrant, rich, and empathetic.”
Created by Jasmine Dorothy Haefner.
In Grudges, two brothers, who's already contentious relationship was further sundered by the 2016 election, get together for a ‘bury-the-hatchet’ family dinner. Everything goes awry when Paul brings along his new girlfriend, who's nearly half his age. That's me, Candy Cruz, a 30-year-old sharply intelligent Cuban American who met Paul while they both worked on Trump's campaign. She's a top-notch social media consultant who certainly leans right, but works for the party that bids the highest.
Performances ran over 7-shows from July 16th-24th!
If you’re in an industry professional and would like to see the work, please send me a message through my contact page and I’ll be happy to send along a link.
Dream premiered in December 2019 at Triborough Performing Arts Center. The evening was a collection of short works. Jasmine performed in three pieces including her own, The Reliable Bullet.
EVICTED is a devised piece created by Teatro Yerbabruja Experimental. It premiered at the company’s performance space in Oct, 2019 and has since had its first commissioned show at the Van Nostrand Theatre. EVICTED is a traveling show.
Things aren't going well for the residents of a Brooklyn apartment house. When a mysterious man appears to riddle his way through their problems, it's icing on the cake. Somehow, his strange help gets them to see what's missing from their lives.
Premiered at the Hoboken International Film Festival, Best Comedy Finalist.