Trivia

Jacquie is committed to teaching kids life skills through the arts, she is a Director of a non-profit: Ovation School for the Performing Arts. One of her roles is as a choreographer for massive amounts of children. She also does film, web, wedding dances, mashups, and galas.

She worked as an actress with the FBI and LAPD in Terrorism and Hostage Negotiations Training. Her role was that of a "PETA extremist" (fighting for the treatment of ferrets). She threatened agents over the phone while sitting in a van for 2 days outside an unmarked building in NOHO.

Jacquie began as a professional piano accompanist at age 9. Since then, she has work experience as a musical director, a singer/piano player, composer, and a recording artist with "Moonsong".

She is the youngest daughter of the 22nd Secretary of the Air Force, the Honorable Michael B. Donley.

While preparing "Silent and Forgotten", Jacquie prepared 14 characters (one was edited out). Though she was fully invested in the concept of this project, it was a 200 page script was ready 6 weeks prior to shooting. She was in every single scene. Because of the nature of filming so many characters out of sequence, she made 14 scripts so that the story line was clear for each of them.

"Silent and Forgotten" is a 2 1/2 hour film shot in 11 days. Because of her sleep disorder, Jacquie would wake up on her own in the middle of the night. This gave her an opportunity to go over the shot schedule and freshen up on memorization a few hours before shooting each day. It was typically 25 minutes of makeup to get focused, she'd change costumes and walk in for the next scene.