Previous Experience

Jenny Skinner is a performance artist and academic. She has graduated with a BA and MA in Performance at Leeds Beckett University and continued her postgraduate research at The University of Leeds, focusing on feminist performance. She then returned to Leeds Beckett as a lecturer on their BA Theatre and Performance programme.

Her academic work centres on the use of neo-burlesque within live art to create empowering spaces for cisgender female performers to explore their experiences of sexual violence.

She has worked as an academic consultant on Arts Council England funded projects and collaborated on international performances with artists from South Africa, Greece, and Germany. Mostly recently, her full length stage show: ‘This is not a Burlesque Show’ (2021) was featured at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania.