Jennifer is an award-winning UK and International theatre maker and stage director, specializing in making new work across multiple disciplines. Her practice spans new writing, devised work and opera, and she also has extensive experience of working with communities and young people. Jennifer trained at the University of East Anglia, the Young Vic and on the National Theatre Studio Director’s course.
Jennifer has just finished her position as Associate Director at The Young Vic Theatre. She was the resident director for Tina, The Tina Turner Musical at the Aldwych Theatre, and the resident assistant director of Theatre Royal Plymouth / The Drum 2013-14.
As director:
Further Than The Furthest Thing (Young Vic), Icon, K-Pop Musical (London); Gwei Mui/Ghost Girl (Camdens People Theatre) Mountains (Royal Exchange, and National Tour, Spring 2018) We Are You (Young Vic, British Museum) Clytemnestra (The Gate, London); WANTED (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Constellations & One Day When We Were Young (GEST, Sweden); Listening To Hackney (Chatsworth Palace); For The Record (TRP, Plymouth); The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (The Drum, Plymouth); Blow Out; Feathers; The Forum (Etcetera Theatre, London and Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter); Chasing Beckett (The London Theatre)
In Development: THE ODYSSEY (Unicorn Theatre), THE TEMPEST (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), FUNDAMENTAL (NDT), and GHOST GIRL for TV.
As Assistant / Associate:
Imperium (RSC); Snow in Midsummer (RSC); The Weaklings (National Tour); The Edge of Our Bodies (Gate Theatre); MADMAN; Solid Air; Inside Wagner’s Head (The Drum, Plymouth); #AiWeiWei (Hampstead Theatre); The Magic Flute (Ryedale Festival & The Arcola) The Owl and the Pussycat (Royal Opera House, London); Rodelinda (Iford Arts)