Jennine Krueger

Atlanta, Georgia

Jennine “DOC” Krueger is a mother, writer, musical-theatre creator, poet-lyricist, artivist, public speaker, and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia, where she is pursuing an MFA in Film and Television at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Her work blends hip-hop, history, folklore, and social justice into bold, genre-bending musical storytelling that puts marginalized voices front and center, where they belong.

Her hip-hop musical Green, a remix of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight filtered through Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, is currently in development with Theatre Now New York’s National Musical Development Lab. She is also developing new musicals centered on Doris Miller, a Black WWII hero, and a reframed Salem Witch Trials story told from the perspective of Tituba. Her current musical focus, Cuttin’ Heads, is a blues-soaked, 1930s barbershop musical rooted in the legend of Robert Johnson at the crossroads, harmonizing urban folklore with a descent worthy of Dante himself. Poetry is her first language and primary medium.

A nationally recognized poet, Jennine has earned multiple slam titles, coached national teams, and mentored writers in performance and dramatic storytelling. Her dramatic work has won Best of Fest five times at Austin’s Frontera Festival, and she was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Good River Review. Her anime screenplay pilot Ars Poetica, a poetry-powered exploration of mental health, won Best TV Pilot at the Tokyo Screenwriting Festival.

An HBCU alumna of Huston-Tillotson University, Jennine holds an M.Ed. from Concordia University and an MFA in Poetry from Spalding University.