Jennie Pardoe graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in acting. She continued her graduate studies at Emerson College, where she earned a master's degree in theatre education, followed by a doctorate degree in theatre from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Dr. Pardoe joined the faculty in the Department of Theatre at BYU-Idaho in 2020. Among the campus plays she had directed is As It is in Heaven (2023).