Jill Slyter

July 2025

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Jill 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 on Broadway in Show Boat, opposite Jerry Lewis as Lola in the national tour of Damn Yankees, 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. Also regionally, she has 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, Miss Adelaide opposite Maurice Hines in Guys and Dolls, Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity, one of the cats in Cats, The Acrobat in Matilda, Martha in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, as Solange LaFitte in Follies and Arvide Abernathy in Guys and Dolls, here at San Francisco Playhouse, and most recently as Mrs. White in Clue. For a brief moment, Jill carried a 4.00 GPA at the Colorado School of Mines where she majored in mechanical and chemical engineering before finally graduating summa cum laude from California State University, Monterey Bay, with a BS in nursing. Jill hopes to be the first engineer-nurse-actor on Mars. jillslyter.com