Jenny Harris is a freelance Drama Practitioner based in Manchester.
She works with a diverse range of people - all ages, all abilities.
Jenny loves to devise and make theatre with anyone who likes playing and sharing stories.
She likes finding out about their passions and making work that they can have ownership of.
Jenny is a huge believer in theatre as a powerful tool for developing confidence and communication skills.
She has worked in numerous theatres, community venues and schools in the North-West and loves to collaborate with other artists and different art forms.
Jenny does much of her work in schools (primary and SEN mostly), and has worked extensively with elders and people living with a dementia. She worked for many years on Storybox - a creative dementia project for Small Things CIC.
Jenny is currently working with DIY Theatre Company, National Youth Theatre and Manchester University. She has recently worked for M6 Theatre (Speech Bubbles and youth theatre), Theatre Porto and Peoplescape Theatre as well as delivering creative dementia training sessions with nurses on their creative health placements at Chester University.
Jenny works on the Speech Bubbles project - using drama and storytelling to support children with a range of communication issues.
She is lead artist on a three year research project at Manchester University on Care Aesthetics funded by AHRC - where she led a project in a care home in Manchester working with people with dementia called 'Beautiful Feast'.
She is also developing work on 'Beautiful Care' - an exciting new piece of work which celebrates the work of carers.
In 2023, Jenny was successful in getting a DYCP fund from ACE in which she worked with writer Lowri Evans and filmmaker Hilary Easter Jones to explore images of her Mum who is living with Alzheimer's. The 'Our Long Goodbye' exhibition is now touring in 2025 to four venues in the North West. Jenny was a finalist in the Manchester Culture Awards for her work on the exhibition. She is hugely grateful to ACE and the Care Lab for funding and supporting this project. Visit - ourlonggoodbye.co.uk
She works with a diverse range of people - all ages, all abilities.
Jenny loves to devise and make theatre with anyone who likes playing and sharing stories.
She likes finding out about their passions and making work that they can have ownership of.
Jenny is a huge believer in theatre as a powerful tool for developing confidence and communication skills.
She has worked in numerous theatres, community venues and schools in the North-West and loves to collaborate with other artists and different art forms.
Jenny does much of her work in schools (primary and SEN mostly), and has worked extensively with elders and people living with a dementia. She worked for many years on Storybox - a creative dementia project for Small Things CIC.
Jenny is currently working with DIY Theatre Company, National Youth Theatre and Manchester University. She has recently worked for M6 Theatre (Speech Bubbles and youth theatre), Theatre Porto and Peoplescape Theatre as well as delivering creative dementia training sessions with nurses on their creative health placements at Chester University.
Jenny works on the Speech Bubbles project - using drama and storytelling to support children with a range of communication issues.
She is lead artist on a three year research project at Manchester University on Care Aesthetics funded by AHRC - where she led a project in a care home in Manchester working with people with dementia called 'Beautiful Feast'.
She is also developing work on 'Beautiful Care' - an exciting new piece of work which celebrates the work of carers.
In 2023, Jenny was successful in getting a DYCP fund from ACE in which she worked with writer Lowri Evans and filmmaker Hilary Easter Jones to explore images of her Mum who is living with Alzheimer's. The 'Our Long Goodbye' exhibition is now touring in 2025 to four venues in the North West. Jenny was a finalist in the Manchester Culture Awards for her work on the exhibition. She is hugely grateful to ACE and the Care Lab for funding and supporting this project. Visit - ourlonggoodbye.co.uk
"One of the most creative and thoughtful theatre practitioners working anywhere.
Jenny creates great relationships with her groups, and through this, dynamic and engaging theatre."
James Thompson, Professor of Applied and Social Theatre, University of Manchester.
"Jen Harris is one of our most experienced creative practitioners. She brings energy, positivity and generosity in abundance and can always be trusted to do a fantastic job on every level."
Gilly Baskeyfield, Artistic Director, M6 Theatre Company
Jenny creates great relationships with her groups, and through this, dynamic and engaging theatre."
James Thompson, Professor of Applied and Social Theatre, University of Manchester.
"Jen Harris is one of our most experienced creative practitioners. She brings energy, positivity and generosity in abundance and can always be trusted to do a fantastic job on every level."
Gilly Baskeyfield, Artistic Director, M6 Theatre Company
