Jennifer has over 40 years’ experience as a professional actor, educator/director, and arts advocate. She has performed over 100 roles in theatre/film & TV across the country including a Jessie Award for The Trespassers by Morris Panych, a Vancouver Playhouse/ Belfry co-production. In the film/ TV world, she is especially proud of the Canadian work on Fido, Waydowntown, The War Between Us, Da Vinci's Inquest and the series my Life as a Dog. 

For over 15 years, she has also been a faculty member at Vancouver Film School including 10 years as Head of the VFS Acting Department. Jennifer has a passion to bring positive change in our actor educational spaces to be more inclusive, diverse, and accommodating. She has taught Acting workshops around the world including Mexico, Sweden, Turkey, and Ukraine. Jen believes it is at each stage of the process that we can seek to improve: preparation, performance and recovery – whether on camera or on stage.

As a director, Jen has had the pleasure to work with Ben & Loretta on Kindred theatre’s successful productions of Lifespan of a Fact and Dinner with Friends. Most recently, she has had the pleasure of returning to the stage to play Gertrude in Hamlet at Bard on the Beach. She has a degree from York University and is a graduate of TMU (formerly Ryerson) Theatre School. In 2018, Jennifer was honoured with the UBCP/Actra Lorena Gale Women of Distinction Award.