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Episode Synopsis
Living between cultures and the impact this has on theatremaking, navigating the pull between self-led work and collective creativity and a preference for Bolivian Salteñas over Coventry Godcakes. All of this and more is discussed in this month’s episode of Regrets I’ve Had A Few, featuring award winning theatre maker, Jennifer Jackson.About Jennifer JacksonJennifer Jackson is a Midlands-born, award winning British-Bolivian theatre-maker, movement director, choreographer, and performer whose work exists at the meeting point of performance and the excitement of a sports spectacle. With Jennifer Jackson Company, Jennifer creates exhilarating and empowering experiences for audiences and participants which invites them to dream into new kinships and cosmologies, and her performances encompass theatre, contemporary dance, live art, Bolivian folk dance, martial arts, and co-creation. Drawing from her mixed-heritage, Jennifer tells stories that speak to her diasporic heritage; exploring power & gender biases.Jennifer’s recent production, Wrestleladswrestle, features a gang of 30 local women and non-binary folk who are trained to playfight with her. Her solo work, Endurance, was shortlisted for the Stückemarkt at the Theatertreffen (Berliner Festspiele, 2022). She has been presented at Battersea Arts Centre, HOME Manchester, Sheffield Crucible, Cambridge Junction, The Lowry and The egg (Bath Theatre Royal). She was the inaugural artist to be awarded the Artist Takeover at Factory International, and has been supported by Britten Pears; Choreodrome (The Place, London); Theaterhaus Mitte (Berlin); Barbican Open Lab; Jerwood Arts; Leverhulme Arts Scholarship; Without Walls; MGC Futures; The Lowry; The egg; Sheffield Theatres; and Oxford Playhouse. She was invited onto the ‘Scene Change Residency’ in 2023 by Battersea Arts Centre, HET Theater Festival, and Nederlands Theater Festival. In 2024, Jennifer presented at Caravan Assembly, and was selected to pitch Endurance at Manchester International Festival 2025.As a movement director, Jennifer’s recent credits include The Last Stand of Mary Whitehouse (Nottingham Playhouse); Bindweed (Mercury Theatre); Cowbois, Julius Caesar, and Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); as well as I, Joan, Merchant of Venice, and Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe).
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