Tartuffe, the Imposter

Jennifer is a freelance UK theatremaker and stage director, specialising in new writing and fusing theatre with music. Her practice also spans devised work and opera, and she has experience of working with communities and young people.

Jennifer was the Genesis Fellow and Associate Director of the Young Vic in London in 2020-2022. She was listed in ELLE UK's 2020 Hotlist, a celebration of the new leaders and shakers reframing the worlds of fashion, beauty, politics and culture.

She has worked with buildings and organisations including The Young Vic, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, The Royal Exchange, The Gate, The Unicorn, The Royal Opera House and The Royal Shakespeare Company. She was also Resident Director on TINA: THE MUSICAL in the West End in 2019-2020

She trained at the University of East Anglia and on the National Theatre Studio Director’s course, and was resident assistant director at Theatre Royal Plymouth between 2013-14.

Born in Kent to Cantonese parents but raised by a white British family, she is interested in making work that helps to tell the stories of over-looked and under-represented communities, or that can give voice to those who are normally unheard. She strives to make work that is politically urgent and emotionally vital.

Jennifer seeks collaborations with artists from all disciplines to make work that can constantly question what theatre is - and can be - and that tells stories about who and what we are.

She believes that theatre can change the way we see the world around us and should galvanise that change. 

She wants theatre to be for everyone.

Jean Baptiste Molière (1622-73) was born Jean Poquelin, the son of a prosperous upholsterer of Paris. His father was attached to the service of the King and Molière was intended to succeed him. However, in 1643 he changed his surname and joined a family of actors, the Béjarts. Encouraged by their touring success the group returned to Paris and performed in front of Louis XIV and his Court. The success of Molière's farce Le Docteur Amoureux gave the group the opportunity to share a theatre at the Petit- Bourbon with an Italian company, and here Molière's reputation was established. His other plays include L'Ecole des Femmes (1662), Don Juan (1665),Tartuffe (written 1664, produced 1667), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1671), Les Femmes Savantes (1673) and Le Malade Imaginaire (1673).

John Donnelly is a past winner of the Tom Erhardt Award, the PMA Award for Best New Writer and the NSDF Sunday Times Playwriting Award. His plays include The Pass (Royal Court), a version of The Seagull (Headlong/UK Tour), Little Russians (Tricyle Theatre/ First Blast: Proliferation Season), The Knowledge (Bush Theatre), Encourage the Others (Almeida Projects), Songs of Grace and Redemption (Liminal Theatre/Theatre 503),Showtime (LAMDA), Conversation #1 (The Factory/V&A/ Latitude Festival) and Bone (Royal Court Theatre). John's work for television includes the short film Henry (Channel 4's Coming Up, 2013) and two episodes of Utopia (co-writer; Kudos/Channel4) and an episode of Glue (Channel 4/Eleven Films), both 2014. Most recently, he adapted his stage play The Pass for screen, produced by Duncan Kenworthy/Toledo Productions and starring Russell Tovey. The Pass was chosen to open the BFI Flare Festival before returning to BFI London Film Festival; it was the opening night film for NewFest and closed Twist: Seattle Queer Film Festival, all 2016.

Contains police brutality, the threat of domestic violence and minor references to suicide methods. Use of explicit language throughout and blood. 

This version of TARTUFFE (THE IMPOSTER) opened at the National Theatre, London in February 2019.

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