JENNY FENNESSY
Height: 5′ 4”
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Training:
B.A. in Acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (First Class Honours)
Skills:
Extensive experience as a voice over actor, Qualified teacher, Corporate role play, Workshop leader, Farm skills, Conversational Irish, Full Drivers Licence.
Accents:
American, Belfast, Cockney, Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Heightened RP, London, Northern Irish, Kerry, London RP, Waterford.
Awards:
Finalist in the Michael Bryant Verse Speaking Award at the National Theatre London.
Runner up in the Alan Bates Bursary at the Actors Centre London.
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| Call the Midwife | Mrs O'Leary | BBC & Neal Street Productions | Syd Macartney |
| Seriously Sinéad? | Valerie | RTE | Jack Britton |
| The Doireann Project | Sinéad | RTE | Jason Branagan |
| Mr. Sun | Carmel | Emagine | Oonagh Quinn |
| That's English | Michelle | Highwood Productions Limited | Andrew Morgan |
| Six (Short) | Doireann | Spielhaus | David Gordon |
| Liam O'Crotaigh An Ropaire is an Rogaire | Maire de Noraidh | Nemeton | Tom O'Braonáin |
| Attachments (Short) | Susan | Independent | Ruth Early |
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| Othello | Emelia | Mill Productions | Geoff Gould |
| Lovesong | Margaret | Red 'n Blue Theatre Company | Dylan Kennedy |
| King Lear | Goneril and The Fool u/s | Royal Shakespeare Company (RST+Barbican) | Greg Doran |
| Cymbeline | Gentlewoman (Pisania u/s) | Royal Shakespeare Company (RST+Barbican) | Melly Still |
| Liolá | Ensemble & Tuzza (u/s) | National Theatre London | Richard Eyre |
| A Life | Dorothy | Finborough Theatre London | Eleanor Rhode |
| Text Messages | Lady Macbeth | Project Arts Centre | Caroline Byrne |
| Riders to the Sea | Cathleen | Fractured Lines Theatre Company | Neil Sheppeck |
| King Lear | Regan | Theatre Royal Waterford | Liam Meagher |
| The Bus | Lily | Barnstorm Theatre Group | Philip Hardy |
| Othello | Emelia | Theatre Royal – Waterford | Mark Lambert |
| The Regina Monologues | Jane Symour | Cork Arts Theatre | Mary Curtin |
| BLINK | Sophie | Ground Floor Theatre Company | Killian Collins |
| The Girl Who Was Useful | Anna | Little Red Kettle Theatre Company | Liam Meagher |
| He's Back | Celia | Red Kettle Theatre Company | David Keating |
| The Glass Menagerie | Laura | Brideview Players | Jack Ahearne |
| Quacked | Claire | Little Red Kettle Theatre Company | Liam Meagher |
| The Salvage Shop | Katie | Garter Lane Arts Centre | Jim Nolan |
| Production | Role | Company | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medea | Medea | Guildhall | Patsy Rodenburg |
| Jenufa | Kostelnichka | Guildhall | Sue Lefton |
| Antony and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Guildhall | Owen Horsley |
| Three Sisters | Masha | Guildhall | Wyn Jones & Jo Blatchley |
| The Women | Jane | Guildhall | Wyn Jones |
| Nicholas Nickleby | Miss La Creevy | Guildhall | Jo Blatchley |
| Chaplin | Lottie | Guildhall | Martin Connor |
| Breathing Corpses | Amy | Guildhall | Tom Daley |
| The Permanent Way | Linda De Lieto | Guildhall | Nadia Fall |
| Lysistrata | Chorus | Guildhall | Owen Horsley |
| Think only this of me… (devised piece) | Madge | Guildhall | Christian Burgess |
| The False Count (restoration comedy) | Isabella | Guildhall | Steven Boxer |