Biography

“Transfixing playing” Kingsbury Guardian

Jacquelyn performed as guest artist with Liam Ó Maonlaí of Hothouse Flowers on his solo UK tour in 2021, and was resident artist with the London Irish Pensioners’ Choir, performing with them at RTE’s “Ireland 100” concert at RDS, Dublin in 2023. She played Sister Bernadette in Sally Mulready’s play “A Nun’s Chorus”.

Jacquelyn led an oral history project with the Irish Pensioners starting during the pandemic. “Hear Our Voices” is to be published by the Irish Elders’ Culture Office in 2025.

Jacquelyn is Associate Professor in Folk, Roots and Blues at Leeds Conservatoire and resident Flute and Whistle tutor at the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London.

Actor & Musician "rare charisma": The Stage

Jacquelyn has performed many iconic female roles, including Ophelia in Hamlet with KAOS Theatre (National tour), Beatrix Potter at the Royal Opera House, and Guinevere in Merlin at the Riverside Studios. She has worked for over thirty theatre companies as an actor musician.

Theatre Composition:

Jacquelyn has composed music for theatre including additional music for Rebel Song by Tom Wright & Chris Dickens; the mad songs for KAOS Theatre’s Hamlet (“A tortured and Pre-Raphaelite Ophelia” – The Stage) the KAOS Kassandra, a song for Merlin at the Riverside Studios London starring as Guinevere); Sinan Unel’s Pera Palas at the Arcola Theatre Dalston, and music for the Gate Theatre. She was commissioned by Tyneside Irish Festival to compose the music for “Father Cass’ Bodhran.”