Choreographer Jennifer Rooney joins the ‘Follies’ creative team
Northern Ireland Opera is delighted to announce Jennifer Rooney is joining the creative team as Choreographer for our new production of ‘Follies’ at the Grand Opera House, Belfast.
Jennifer has worked with Northern Ireland Opera on several previous productions, including our award-winning production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s ‘Into The Woods’ at The Lyric Theatre in 2022 and on the same production which was remounted with an Australian cast for West Australian Opera in Perth in 2023. She trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and has worked as a choreographer for over twenty years.
Recent credits include:
TV and Film: Derry Girls (series 2 and 3), How to Get to Heaven from Belfast (series 1), World on Fire (series 2), Old Friends and Other Days (Northern Ireland Opera), Flight (BBC & One Dance Uk), Lark (NI Screen)
Musical Theatre: Murder for Two (Bruiser Theatre Company), Fun Home & Piaf (Gate Dublin), Good Vibrations (Lyric Belfast & IAC New York), Into the Woods (West Australian Opera & Northern Ireland Opera)
Opera: Eugene Onegin, The Juniper Tree & La Bohème (Northern Ireland Opera), La Traviata, Rigoletto & L’elisir d’amore (Diva Opera)
Associate Movement Director: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre London), Once (Coex Theatre Seoul), Truth (Helen Chadwick Company, UK Tour), Once (The Olympia Theatre, Dublin & Charlotte Theatre, Seoul)