Jennifer Irons
Jennifer Irons, a Canadian now based in the UK, is an international producer and award-winning artist working across the charitable, commercial, education, and NGO sectors.
Jennifer is Co-Director of MakeAmplify, an award-winning arts and technology collective that creates large-scale outdoor events with underrepresented communities. They featured in the opening of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the launch of Hull City of Culture, and received the 2020 ARTSDRIVA Superfused Award.
She is also the founder of ironINC in Africa, arts and cultural exchange program working in Africa and the Middle East since 2009. Jennifer mentors and teaches internationally at institutions like University Arts London, Sadlers Wells Young Associates and the University of Hawaii.
As a choreographer, Jennifer’s credits include the 2019 film Hero, the 2011 UK MVA-winning music video for Wave Machines, and mass movement direction for Akram Khan Company’s Kadamati. Her nationally acclaimed solo show Yukon Ho! was specially commended by Olivia Colman’s Screenshot for TV, and her current project, Bad Immigrant, explores colonialism, immigration, and rollerskating.
Jennifer is currently Engagement Associate with Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and a fellow of the 2025 MBA in Arts for Social Innovation cohort at Global Leaders Institute.
