HelloJennifer is an award winning Scottish Playwright, her play Walk a Mile was one of five plays that won the Scottish Short Play Award in 2017. She is the Co-Founder of the Tandem Writing Collective, a female led scratch theatre company which has produced 58 short plays at 26 events since 2016. As one of three playwrights who make up Tandem, Jennifer has written 21 of these short plays, directed two of them and co-produced all 58. Jennifer's most recent play Ivor, written for Tandem Writing Collective, was part of a two year Creative Scotland funded project, and was showcased at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh and the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in 2024. As part of the project Jennifer was mentored by multi-award winning playwright Stef Smith. Ivor was then commissioned by Oran Mor’s Play Pie and a Pint as part of their Spring/Summer 2025 Programme. Jennifer has been commissioned by Strange Town Theatre for Young People twice, creating engaging plays for schools about knife crime (Balisong) which toured schools across Scotland and was seen by 44,000 young people; and HER, a play about sexual harassment and consent which received a 4 star review. Both plays have been published by Salamander Street Theatre. She has written two plays for the Edinburgh Just Festival as part of the Edinburgh Fringe with Black Dingo Productions, one of which, Warrior, went on to tour in two separate school runs funded by Nil by Mouth and Sense over Sectarianism. Warrior also received a run at the Citizen's Theatre in Glasgow. Jennifer has also written a number of short plays, working with Strange Town Theatre Company, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, Play Pie and Pint, Tron Theatre, Moonfly Theatre Company, In Motion Theatre Company, Braw Fox Theatre Company, Discover 21 and Village Pub Theatre. She has also written a short radio play, Looped, for BBC Radio Drama. Jennifer was shortlisted for the Tron Theatre’s Mayfesto Award in 2019 and was one of the Playwrights' Studio Scotland's mentored playwrights in 2017. Jennifer has also written for a number of arts and theatre blogs, travel writing websites and women’s writing magazines. |
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