Jenny Evans(I)
- Producer
- Director
- Actress
Jenny began her career with a part in cult Welsh feature film 'Twin Town', whilst still in her teens. She took on just a few more acting roles over the following year, before quitting the coalface to go to college.
She studied drama and education at the Central School of Speech and Drama, before completing a post-graduate diploma in TV Current Affairs Journalism at City University, both in London.
Graduating from City in 2005, Jenny has since worked as a television journalist. Now an Executive Producer, she has produced and directed for all major current affairs and documentary strands in the UK, including Channel 4's Cutting Edge, Unreported World and Dispatches, ITV's Exposure and Panorama at the BBC. She has also produced numerous docu-dramas for the American market and produced shoots in Brazil, India, Vietnam, Poland and across the US. Her skills lie in investigative work and in securing difficult access, such as to 'super-max' prisons, criminal gangs and survivors of crime.
In 2017 Jenny established her own company, Poor Dog Films Ltd, in order to be able to make the kind of documentary and factual drama films she is most interested in and to have more autonomy over content. She has since worked in collaboration with Bruce Goodison and Kate Cook's Indefinite Films, developing factual drama and documentary drama ideas of public interest, with a focus on the human stories at their heart.
When not working in television, Jenny was for many years Nick Davies of The Guardian's researcher and therefore, alongside him, was one of the people who helped expose the press abuse and police corruption story that would later become known as the 'phone hacking scandal'. Inspired by the work of the lawyers she met during this process, in 2021, Jenny completed a law degree.
She studied drama and education at the Central School of Speech and Drama, before completing a post-graduate diploma in TV Current Affairs Journalism at City University, both in London.
Graduating from City in 2005, Jenny has since worked as a television journalist. Now an Executive Producer, she has produced and directed for all major current affairs and documentary strands in the UK, including Channel 4's Cutting Edge, Unreported World and Dispatches, ITV's Exposure and Panorama at the BBC. She has also produced numerous docu-dramas for the American market and produced shoots in Brazil, India, Vietnam, Poland and across the US. Her skills lie in investigative work and in securing difficult access, such as to 'super-max' prisons, criminal gangs and survivors of crime.
In 2017 Jenny established her own company, Poor Dog Films Ltd, in order to be able to make the kind of documentary and factual drama films she is most interested in and to have more autonomy over content. She has since worked in collaboration with Bruce Goodison and Kate Cook's Indefinite Films, developing factual drama and documentary drama ideas of public interest, with a focus on the human stories at their heart.
When not working in television, Jenny was for many years Nick Davies of The Guardian's researcher and therefore, alongside him, was one of the people who helped expose the press abuse and police corruption story that would later become known as the 'phone hacking scandal'. Inspired by the work of the lawyers she met during this process, in 2021, Jenny completed a law degree.