Biography

Jennifer Tuckett is the co-Director of Her Story Productions, which has just launched its first project, the Women in Theatre Lab. Her Story Productions is the new company supporting women in theatre, film and television which Jennifer runs with Polly Kemp, the founder of ERA 50: 50, the equal representation for actresses campaign whose supporters include Emma Thompson and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Jennifer is the former Research and Literary Director of Sphinx Theatre, the UK’s longest established women’s theatre company. In her position at Sphinx, Jennifer recently designed Sphinx 30, a one-off new writing programme for female playwrights for which Jennifer created the one-off Sphinx Lab which was run in partnership with 15 of the UK’s leading theatres to celebrate Sphinx’s 30th anniversary, and wrote three research reports on women in theatre which were published in The Guardian from 2019 – 2022.

Jennifer has also been Director of Art School, co-founder of London Writers’ Week, and an award-winning writer and academic. Jennifer’s work as a writer includes “Kidnapping Cameron” (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), “I am a Superhero” (joint winner of the Old Vic New Voices Theatre 503 Award), “Ways You Can Survive the World (Theatre 503 and the Flea Theatre, New York), “Lucy’s Brief Guide on How to be Human” (Old Vic New Voices 24 Hour Plays), “George Bush Saved My Life Last Night” (Hampstead Theatre/Menagerie Theatre Company), “An Alien’s Guide to the UK Elections (Liverpool Everyman Theatre and Playhouse/Nabokov), pieces for “Wish You Were Here” (Liverpool Everyman Theatre and Playhouse) and “The Best Tour of Love Ever” (Octagon Theatre Bolton).

Jennifer holds an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama, a BA (Hons) in English from Cambridge University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she was awarded the first Distinction in the eight year history of the scriptwriting strand of the course, and recently completed an MPhil in Education from Cambridge University researching how to improve the transition for women from studying the arts to working in the arts.