Jessica Kennedy is an award-winning choreographer, filmmaker and dance artist based in Dublin. She is Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Junk Ensemble, an internationally acclaimed and leading Irish dance-theatre company.
Jessica trained in the United States, Dublin and London, completing a Bachelor’s Degree in dance and english literature at Middlesex University London.
She has performed extensively with dance and theatre companies throughout Europe and the UK. Jessica has choreographed and collaborated on numerous theatre, dance, visual art and opera works and has worked regularly in Scotland as a movement director for productions with The Tron (Glasgow / Beijing) and Theatre Gu Leor. She has both performed in and choreographed for numerous short and feature films and also works as an intimacy coordinator for film. Jessica has lectured at various universities in Ireland and is part of an all-female experimental electronica group Everything Shook.