Jenny Lockyer
Jenny's work is a mixture of performance, writing, recording, song writing, design and making, comedy, playing, heritage, planning, mural painting and illustration. Throughout her work there is a thread of performance and audience interaction.
Jenny has been working professionally in the arts since graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama with a degree in Theatre Practice. She has worked with various theatre companies on original productions and has produced and performed in many productions and community events herself. These include immersive theatre experiences for schools, gardens and playschemes and children's productions full of music, song and puppetry.
Most recently, Jenny created a production called Granny Pearl - A Magical Tale of the Sea!, a show for very young children all about a magical granny who is 103 and happens to be a mermaid. Lockdown led Jenny to adapt the show into a YouTube series.
Jenny has discovered that projects involving heritage really inspire her. Commissions include writing a collection of songs for the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, one-woman show Amy Johnson: Last Flight Out inspired by the life of the record breaking pilot, and a podcast recording of a set of memoirs written by WAAF member Lillias Barr. Jenny has also devised a series of workshops for primary schools inspired by Amy Johnson and her plane, Jason. She has also created 'Jason Flies Again', an interactive model plane-making experience for children across the world.
Jenny takes inspiration from music hall, variety and storytelling and many of her original songs reflect this. She loves to write and perform songs and monologues full of quirky characters and surreal stories, and has performed her material across the country at all sorts of gigs, from variety shows, cabarets, comedy and acoustic nights, to school assemblies, radio, festivals, people's livings rooms and once for the queue in the local chemist.
She's headlined and also supported the likes of Tim Vine, Sara Pascoe, Adam Buxton, Shazia Mirza, Lucy Porter, Will Self and Dylan Moran.
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