Jennifer Lane Baker (she/her) is a theatre director and facilitator. She trained on the MFA Theatre Directing programme at Birkbeck and at Curve in Leicester, and she holds a degree in English Literature from Durham University (where she was a recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship for the Arts).
Jennifer is currently developing new actor-musician folk musical The Snare and Feral with the Daywalkers Collective, which pitched at BEAM25 earlier this year, and is the UK associate director on The Great Gatsby at the London Coliseum and on the Japanese tour of A Chorus Line.
She was recently resident director on The Lehman Trilogy in the West End and on international tour.
She has directed and worked as associate/assistant director on productions in the West End, across the UK, and internationally in the USA, Australia and Japan.
Jennifer is passionate about making work that is visually exciting, dynamic, camp, and heartfelt, with storytelling and audience at the heart of her practice. She loves music, dance, and silliness.’
Title | Role | Director | Producer |
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A Chorus Line (Japan) | Associate Director | Nikolai Foster | |
The Great Gatsby | Associate Director | Marc Bruni | London Coliseum |
A Chorus Line | Associate Director | Nikolai Foster | Sadler\'s Wells |
The Planet Is ______ (R&D) | Director | Theatre Deli | |
The Lehman Trilogy | Resident Director | Sam Mendes | National Theatre / West End / International tour |
Flashdance | Director | PPA | |
Legally Blonde | Director | PPA | |
The Flying Dutchman | Assistant Director | Lucy Bradley | OperaUpClose / UK tour |
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical | Associate Director | Nikolai Foster | Theatre Royal Bath Productions / UK tour |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Assistant Director | Anthony Almeida | |
Grease | Assistant Director | Nikolai Foster | |
A Chorus Line | Assistant Director | Nikolai Foster | Curve |
Screen 9 | Director | Piccolo Theatre / Pleasance | |
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber | Assistant Director | Nikolai Foster and Lee Proud | Curve |
Blood Wedding | Director | Curve | |
The Color Purple at Home | Assistant Director | Tinuke Craig | |
The Adventures of Albert the Albatross | Director | Worcester City Museum and Art Gallery | |
Macbeth Shall Sleep No More | Director | Action To The World | |
Jesus Christ Superstar | Director | Mark Hillery Arts Centre | |
HMS Pinafore | Director | Durham Opera Ensemble | |
Songs for a New World | Director | Tone Deaf Theatre Company |