For over 18 years Jeny has been performing for stage, film and television with a variety of different puppets and several different puppet styles.  Her extensive resume covers an accomplished array of performances from working with the Muppets- to getting slimy with Aliens and Predators.

Starting in 1991, she began her life in puppetry when she toured with an educational puppet theatre company at schools across Western Canada, and the North Western United States. This was her initial introduction to hands on puppeteering- and with a little instruction, rehearsal, and enthusiasm for the newly found skill, she began performing and teaching puppetry to youth through the Canadian Artists in Residency programs.  She continued her puppet education into her University years, where she participated as a designer, builder, puppet coach or performer for a number of mainstage and student run performances, including Where The Wild Things are, Mr. Tickle, and Medea.

It was at University that her extensive training in the skills of acting, improvisation, voice, mask, movement and dance, and even clowning- helped to strengthen her puppeteering abilities.  Upon moving to Vancouver, and landing a much coveted position on a children’s puppet television series, her education took on a different form:  Much of her puppeteering education from that time on, came to her in an apprentiship type manner from years of working along side some of the best stage, film, and television puppeteers in the world.  She continues to study puppeteering in its many different incarnations so she can meet its constantly changing demands; On any stage or set there are new puppets, and new challenges - no two puppets are ever the same.

She has not limited herself to only performing puppetry, currently she designs and builds puppets, gives workshops and lectures, and advises as an on-set puppetry coach.  In her small puppet workshop, she has designed, built and maintained puppets for a number of stage productions for Chemainus Theatre, Bard on the Beach, and the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.  For film and television, she has built puppets for viral commercials for Nokia Corporation, and for a number of independent films including The Sunflower Hour, and The Puppet Life, a short film she created featuring a Bunraku style puppet build from scratch, named Charlie.   She also continues to work with youth and adults and has taught workshops through Calgary parks and Recreation, the City of Burnaby, private schools, film productions, and several other events.  She has delivered lectures on puppet history and techniques, and coaches puppeteers on-set and off, as well as giving private instruction to puppeteers looking to strengthen their game.

Jeny has a strong love of puppeteering, and is actively pursuing ways she can build a better puppet community- on stage, in film and television, as well as in schools.  She looks forward to seeing puppetry continue to grow as an art, a craft, a skill and a career.

Jeny is a member of ACTRA and UBCP.For more information and full credit listings please see her resume, and www.imdb.com.

Jeny is based out of beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.