Jenny Fitzpatrick is an accomplished producer, writer, director, choreographer, dancer and actress.  What began as an early childhood love of dance and music, manifested into a lifelong commitment to theatre and performing arts. 

 

Jenny received her B.F.A. in Theatre Performance from the University of Kentucky in 2006, where she performed in seven main stage productions. After college, Jenny moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a dance professional and model. Wishing to have her young son raised near her family, Jenny moved back to Kentucky in 2010 and began to develop her distinct style of dance theatre.    While acting as her own producer had its budgetary limitations, Jenny's love of collaboration and multi-disciplined performance art continues to inspire new works and broader ideas. Her writing and original works showcase a wide range of skill and creative direction with a great potential for large-scale design concepts that exist in contemporary media and performance art today. From 2011 to present Jenny has worked with civic leaders, local theatres, arts organizations, musicians, performance artists, cartoonists, architects and universities in the area. 

 

In 2013 she produced and directed her first dance theatre production.  After its success she opened her dance school, Blackbird Dance Theatre. 

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From 2014-2024 Blackbird Dance Theatre was a comprehensive school for dance and performing arts. Students training at Blackbird studied both classical and contemporary styles of dance while also practicing production design, dance composition and stage combat.  These young performers were not only encouraged to creatively collaborate with their instructors and peers but were also immersed into music education and literature analysis.

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While acting as Blackbird's Artistic Director and owner, Jenny curated a lengthy portfolio of adaptations with the young artists and a handful of original works with a company of adult dancers making up the Sr. Company.  While teaching classes, developing curriculums and managing the day-to-day operations of the business, Jenny creatively directed full length productions for both her young artists and the Sr. Company several times a year.

 

​​In 2024, Jenny closed the doors to Blackbird Dance Theatre in the hopes of furthering her career in arts education, concert dance and creative direction.  She has since been  directing and choreographing music videos for Kentucky artists, presenting commissioned work in Cleveland with Ajayi Dance, and most recently Ingenuity Fest.