Jenny Lester

Jenny Lester

Personal Details

Height
5'5"
Eyes
Green
Hair
Light Brown
Voice
Alto/Mezzo
Spotlight ID
Contact
Industry Liaison Manager, industry.liaison@cssd.ac.uk
Website

Training

2023 - 2024
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama - MA Acting - Classical
2010 - 2014
Point Park University Conservatory of Performing Arts - BFA Musical Theatre

Experience

Feature Film

2021
Lead - What She Said - Shallow Graves (Amy Northup)
2020
Supporting - Tahara - w/ Rachel Sennott (Olivia Pearce)

TV

2021
Co Star - The Other Two - HBO Max (Sara Schnieder)
2021
Guest Star - Soon By You (Leah Gottfried)
2017
Lead - Platonics - Shallow Graves (Mitch Yapko)

Stage

2019
Daphna - Bad Jews - American Stage Company (Amy Resnick)
2019
Mary Bennett - Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberly - American Stage Company (Stephanie Gularte)
2018
Liza (u/s) - Pygmalion - Bedlam (Eric Tucker)

Workshops/Readings

2018
Fanny - Hester Street - MCC - w/ Jackie Hoffman (Jaki Bradley)
2017
Young Wife - La Ronde - Bedlam (Eric Tucker)
2017
Duffy - Never Fully Dressed - Boston Playwrights (Alexis Scheer)
2017
Rachel - The Magiker - w/ Bryan Cranston (Charles Dennis)

Awards

Best Actress Tampa Bay for "Bad Jews", 2019 ; New York Foundation of the Arts Women's Fund Grant Winner, 2019

Memberships

SAG-AFTRA, AEA (Equity)

Accents

American Standard, Standard Southern British, RP, Heightened RP, Dublin, Irish (West Country), New York, American Southern, Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew

Skills

Director, Writer, Improvisation, Yoga, Choral Singing, Acapella, Stage Combat (BADC Standard Rapier/Unarmed)

Languages

English