Jill Slyter

June 2024

Jill Slyter headshot Jill (she, her, they) is enjoying her second career as a registered nurse after retiring from show business in 2007. She finds that exposing herself to the vulnerability of live performance, where sheer terror lives, is a great way to unwind from the daily stresses of hospice nursing. Before retiring from musical theatre, Jill performed in Show Boat on Broadway, as Lola in the national tour of Damn Yankees opposite Jerry Lewis, as Peggy Sawyer in the national tour of 42nd Street, and as Cassie in an unbelievable number of national, European, and international tours and regional productions of A Chorus Line. Regionally, she played Rose in Gypsy, Polly in Crazy for You, Woman 2 in And the World Goes ‘Round, Fastrada in Pippin, Miss Sandra in All Shook Up, Adelaide in Guys and Dolls opposite Maurice Hines, Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity, one of the cats in Cats (CMTSJ), the Acrobat in Matilda The Musical and Martha in White Christmas, Mrs. White in Clue (Sierra Repertory Company), Ray in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Ray of Light Theatre), and Miss Lark in Mary Poppins, Solange LaFitte in Follies and Arvide Abernathy in Guys and Dolls (San Francisco Playhouse). For a brief moment, Jill carried a 4.00 GPA at the Colorado School of Mines while majoring in mechanical and chemical engineering before finally graduating summa cum laude from California State University, Monterey Bay, with a BS in nursing. She hopes to be the first engineer-nurse-actor on Mars. jillslyter.com