Bundanon

Lives / works: Naarm, home of the Traditional Custodians the Yalukit William clan of the Boon Wurrung people.

A 1984 NIDA alumnus, Jennifer played Mandy the Mullet (FOXTEL’s Wentworth), Enid Holdstock (Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries), and Gertrude in Malthouse’s Because The Night. Stage credits include My Dearworthy Darling (Rabble/ Malthouse), Arbus & West (MTC) Merciless Gods (LOTC/Griffin), Suddenly Last Summer (Red Stitch/LOTC), Moral Panic (dir.Bridget Balodis), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (dir. Roger Hodgman), Mamma Mia (2003-2005,
2009-2010) and Kosky’s Women of Troy (STC). Awards include Sydney Theatre Critics’ Circle Award (Baroness, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Green Room Award (Merciless Gods), and GRAA nominations (Women of Troy, Nightingale and the Rose). She plays Major Stone in Vic Opera’s forthcoming Happy End, and Katya in the 2022 Malthouse/Belvoir co-production Looking for Alibrandi.

Jennifer has penned numerous cabarets (awarded 2001 City Of Sydney Cabaret Festival Award). Current co-writing project Persona Non Grata with Little Ones Artistic Director Stephen Nicolazzo, explores her Croatian heritage, pansexuality and female warriorhood.

In residence at Bundanon

The Ali Project

Mehboob Ali, asylum seeker, storyteller, has lived a life of courage, luck, ingenuity and tenacity.
Allies in process, we will create a multi-disciplinary, multimedia evocation of one astonishing life reflecting many lives, rich in Pashtun music and feast, Propelled by Ali’s passionate and graphic recounting, his vivid recollection and the heart stopping perils of the journey, the story will evolve through movement, image, text and symbol, towards a theatrical structure. This odyssey evokes at a cellular level relinquishment, endurance, hope.
Form is the quest: how it manifests, visually, aurally, stylistically, how story, protagonists and audience fuse. We illuminate what unifies us.

Other Artists involved are Mehboob Ali, Natalie Davey, Sepideh Kian.