Most recently Jayna served as Executive Producer for Running Subway Productions where she worked on immersive experiences (RiseNY, Art of the Brick, Van Gogh), and theatrical productions (GRINCH, IF I RAN THE CIRCUS), as well as overseeing business development and production teams.

Prior to Running Subway, she worked for Cirque du Soleil as Consulting Producer of TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE and Executive Producer on several projects including the Hamburg, Germany, and Broadway productions of PARAMOUR, the content of the NFL Experience Times Square, and THE WIZ on NBC.

Prior to her work with Cirque du Soleil, Jayna worked for BASE Entertainment where she executive produced ARRABAL (Buenos Aires, Toronto), JERSEY BOYS (Johannesburg, Asian Tour), PRISCILLA: QUEEN OF THE DESERT (São Paulo), THE LION KING (Singapore), Jerry Mitchell’s PEEPSHOW (Las Vegas), WAYNE BRADY: MAKING SH%@ UP (Las Vegas). Jayna also served as the General Manager for the critically acclaimed downtown New York theatre company the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma (Poetics: A Ballet Brut, Kasimir and Karoline, Three Sisters).

Jayna caught the theatre bug in 2004 when she quit her job as a Senior Producer for The Wall Street Journal Online to attend Columbia University’s MFA program in Theatre Management and Producing. Before working at WSJ.com she was the Director of New Media and Media Spokesperson at the Insurance Information Institute. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.