JILLIAN VITKO
ABOUT
Jillian was born in New Hampshire and grew up in Pennsylvania. She has a BA in Theatre from the University of Pittsburgh. While living in Pittsburgh, Jillian starred in the hit web series The Baristas, and performed in the regional immersive experience STRATA (Best Play of the Year / featured in American Theatre Magazine).
Since moving to NYC, Jillian's studied comedy at UCB, The Annoyance, Reckless, and Magnet, where she spent a year on the musical improv house team Pipe Dreams on Musical Megawatt. She also co-created the musical improv show True Crime the Musical, which ran for three years Off-Broadway, & Love is Blind the Improvised Musical, which premiered in 2025 and was nominated for Best New Musical at the BroadwayWorld Awards. You can catch Jillian in the improvised web series Citizens of New York playing various characters. She also performs as a musical improviser in the Off-Broadway comedy show On the Spot at Room 52.
Jillian can be seen in film & TV on NBC/Peacock, Amazon, Netflix, Investigation Discovery, and TLC, among others. Her work in film has earned her several Best Actress nominations. She's also performed theatre/musical theatre on many stages, including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Royal Family Theatre, and 13th Street Repertory, being lucky enough to play classic characters as well as originate roles in new works along the way.
As a filmmaker, Jillian has served as a jury member for the 2022 & 2023 FFTG Awards and was chosen as a featured filmmaker at Cabin Fever Film Festival. Her short, HoneyDough, has won Best Comedy, Best Actress, Best Short, Best Writer, Best Director, and Best Art Design Concept at various festivals around the world. Her microshorts have won awards for Best MicroShort, Jury Award, and Audience Choice Award.
Her solo show, Synesthesia the Musical, inspired by the music of her own life, began at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (named a Stand-Out Show by PopDust), and she's since expanded the story to fit in even more of her music by adapting the show into a feature film, Synesthesia Story. The script has won various screenwriting awards and the original soundtrack has been awarded Best Original Soundtrack at film festivals. The film is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas.
Jillian also serves as a Co-Chair for the Career Guidance BOOST Program at Off The Lane, musical improv instructor, video captioner, and a freelane producer.
