Jennifer Sheldrake
Teacher/Artistic Director
Jennifer Sheldrake is a theater teacher and Artistic Director at Murrieta Valley High School who has a 20-year teaching tenure in Temecula and Elsinore, California. A dancer since age six, she earned scholarships to Tremaine’s and Dupree’s dance centers in Los Angeles, later working as a professional background dancer in commercials and videos. Sheldrake ultimately chose to finish college, joining a modern dance company post-graduation. Armed with degrees in both choreography and psychology, she took a break to start a family, now sharing three sons with her husband Sean. After raising their sons, Sheldrake returned to school and earned a teaching credential. Currently, while Mr. Sheldrake runs the Murrieta Mesa Theater and plays in a band with their boys, Mrs. Sheldrake, equipped with a theater teaching credential, teaches at Murrieta Valley High.