Three Sisters Theatre Company: Giving Voice To Women’s Rights And Forming A Resistance Singing Group
When the new Three Sisters Theatre Company performed Herstory Retold in April 2025, it brought to life women’s historical struggles and successes via poetry, skits and stories. The inaugural show’s two performances sold out both nights.
“It was so popular we had to add a third show,” says Amanda Jackman, Three Sisters Theatre Company co-founder and musical director. “It was a powerful piece, and funny.”
Since Herstory Retold, the grassroots theatre company has continued to perform plays and variety shows before packed audiences — including a three-day run of The Vagina Monologues, which took place in February 2026. People waited in line outside the door in case someone with a ticket didn’t show up, Jackman recalls.
“The Vagina Monologues went over really well,” she says. “We even heard from the playwright, V (formerly known as Eve Ensler), after she heard about the show on Colorado Public Radio.”
Alexandria Allerheiligen, Cat James, Elizabeth Paroni, Brielle Farrell and Sienna Hayes perform in “Feminist Horror Stories,” October 2025. Photo by Randie Lemons.
‘UNABASHEDLY FEMINIST’
The idea of forming a feminist theatre company came about while Jackman and her friend Julie Matthews were hanging out with their toddlers at the library one day, during which they talked about pursuing passions outside of motherhood. Jackman, who is musically talented, and Matthews, with her business skills, along with Sabrina Jackman, founded Three Sisters Theatre Company in 2024.
“We are unabashedly feminist, and absolutely political,” Jackman says. “We’re a safe space theatre company. We work with individuals with lived female experience,” including trans and nonbinary folks, too. Male supporters work behind the scenes.
So far, about 50 community volunteers have been involved with Three Sisters, Jackman says. Anyone aligned with its mission to “uplift the voices of marginalized communities engage in community activism, and provide a safe space for our cast and audience members,” is welcome, she says.
“I’m always blown away by these shows, and how talented all these people are, and how they put their heart and soul into this work,” says Heather Nicholson, who met Amanda and Sabrina Jackman while all three women were performing for another Grand Junction theatre company that Nicholson founded, called Geek Parties. Nicholson has performed for, as well as attended as an audience member, Three Sisters Theatre productions. Every show brings forth both tears, and laughter, she notes.
ADULT THEATER CAMP
Three Sisters Theatre Co.’s first two productions were free to attend. Although the shows garnered enough donations those evenings to allow the purchase of stage lights.
Performances take place in the sanctuary at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Grand Valley, 536 Ouray Ave., where Amanda Jackman also serves as the music director. The church donates the space for both rehearsals and performances.
Tickets for The Vagina Monologues in February were $10, which went toward purchasing the licensing rights to the play. All proceeds from the show’s Sunday matinee ($1,200) were donated to Hilltop Community Resources Latimer House, an organization that provides services for survivors of domestic violence.
In October 2025, the group performed three nights of Feminist Horror Stories — where cast members told ancient folklore stories, but changed the narrative to give power back to women.
The theatre company’s spring schedule included an evening of storytelling titled “Sisterhood of Motherhood,” a collaboration with the Colorado Birth Collective; and the Beltane Women’s Market, a local women-owned business event with vendors, food trucks and informational booths.
Three Sisters Theatre Co.’s big summer project is a theater camp for grownups, July 21-26, which includes four days of instruction, plus workshops in improv, movement, acting, historical research for characters, music and musical theater. The week will culminate in a showcase on Saturday, followed by a fun camp-style cast party.
And in August, the group will hold auditions for a variety production to be held in December.
SINGING RESISTANCE GRAND VALLEY
Last winter, Three Sisters Theatre Co. added a singing group to their repertoire of activism. In October 2025, several cast members performed songs on a makeshift stage at the No Kings rally in Grand Junction. By January, community members were asking for a way to get together to sing on a regular basis as a form of protest, Jackman recalls.
“Our mission is to practice what we preach, she says. “This felt like a calling for us — to take on this project. So, we created the Grand Valley Justice Choir” — since renamed Singing Resistance Grand Valley to align with the grassroots national singing movement.
Approximately 40 choir members performed uplifting songs, in three-part harmonies, during Grand Junction’s third No Kings rally on March 28. After three songs, the group joined the protest march through Las Colonias Park. “It’s a singing resistance group that protects people,” Jackman says. “The choir is open to anyone, of all abilities.”
Originally published in the summer 2026 issue of Spoke+Blossom.