Jenny Lovell
Jenny’s training includes 2 years with the Drama Studio Sydney, Voice workshops with master teachers Rowena Baylos (L.A.) and Andrew Wade (RSC), Improvisation workshops with Keith Johnstone and as an International Fellow at the Globe Theatre, London. She has been performing on stage, screen and TV for over 20 years. TV includes Prisoner, The Money or the Gun, Blue Heelers, MDA and Sensing Murder. Film work includes Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli and Darkness Falls. Theatre includes work as actor and director with Actors at Work (Bell Shakespeare Company), Waking Eve (Playbox), Sex, Drugs and Walking Frames (La Mama), Dead Tragic (Impro Melbourne), Iron and Rabbit Hole (Red Stitch).
Jenny has been improvising since 1987 while helping out with Theatresports™ at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney. Since then she has performed in improvisation shows in Sydney, Melbourne and at international festivals in San Francisco, Seattle, Hong Kong and Edmonton, Canada. She has been part of the continuing development of Theatresports™ in Sydney and Melbourne, performing on stage and in corporate and school performances. As well as Theatresports™ Jenny has performed in a number of different improvisation formats, including Harold, Shakespeare Scared Scriptless and Unforeseen Stories. She has created or helped to create 5 different long form improvisation shows and is currently working on her sixth.
Jenny is a 2004 Green Room nominee for her performances in Iron (Red Stitch) and Dead Tragic (which she also produced for Impro Melbourne) and was General Manager of Impro Melbourne for 10 years.
As well as performing and directing Jenny also teaches drama, Shakespeare and improvisation with Monash University, Victorian College of the Arts and St. Martins Youth Art Centre.
Jenny loves to improvise any scenes that involve genre and would most like to improvise again with overseas improvisers, especially the Europeans, as they put you on your toes and are not afraid to challenge you to speak in other languages.
