​Jennifer Lent

Jennifer is a professional dancer, singer, actor and professional choreographer.  She holds a B.A. in Theater from The College of William & Mary and
an M.F.A. in Dance Performance and Choreography from Florida State
University.  Previously the Director of Dance/Assistant Professor of
Dance and Musical Theater at Western Carolina University, Jennifer is a professor of Dance at Christopher Newport University since 2009.  There she has developed the university’s annual Dance Concert, A Delicate Balance.  Choreographic credits from CNU include Steel Pier (received KCACTF nom.), Chicago, Best Little Whorehouse in TX, Once Upon a Mattress and a re-staging of 9/11: A Reflection.  A Dance & Musical Theater professor since 2007, she has directed several dance concerts and choregraphed the tap dance show, Crazy For You, four times!
Jennifer has choreographed for Virginia Stage Company (LORT) and performs and
choreographs with Virginia Musical Theater.  For VMT, Jennifer completed choreography for the musical, Happy Days, starring Derek Keeling as Fonze known from Grease's, You're the One That I Want."  She has choreographed Mary Poppins for West Virginia Public Theatre at the historic Metropolitan Theater in Morgantown.

Most recent, is her summer contract performances with Virginia Repertory Theater in Dolly Parton's

9 to 5, the Musical, and Waitress.  

Other performance credits
include The Lost Colony and Legends in Concert. Roles with Virginia Musical Theater include Jacqueline in La Cage Aux Folles, Ms. Mazeppa in Gypsy, and Nellie in Jekyll and Hyde in which she performed with American Idol Star, Constantine Maroulis. She has worked with Gwen Verdon, Ben Vereen, Charlotte d'Amboise, Terrence Mann and Ann Reinking.

She trains with Tony Award Winning Broadway star, Faith Prince.  She has performed a solo Cabaret show under Prince's tuteledge.  Jennifer performed a solo at The St. Louis Cabaret Conference and Festival where she trained with Marilyn Maye, Peisha McPhee, Alex Rybeck, Tedd Firth, and Faith Prince.

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Jennifer also runs her own production company,

JKL Productions.

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She can also be found at:

https://www.backstage.com/u/jenniferlent