ABOUT JEAN
EQUITY VICE-PRESIDENT
LATEST - View video of Jean at the 2009 TUC Congress. Click the title.
Jean was re-elected as a Council member of the actors' and performers' union EQUITY in July 2008 and is now in her 9th consecutive term. She has also been re-elected by the Council as a Vice President of the union. A post she has held since 2004.
Jean is Chairman of BECS - the British Equity Collecting Society - separate organisation from Equity but set up by Equity in 1998 for the collecting of monies for UK audiovisual performers from collecting societies abroad.
She is Chair of the Advertising in New Media working party which with the IPA are about to publish a new Protocol for recording of advertising material and Chair of the newly formed New Technology working party. She chaired the the recent successful West End negotiations and was the Chair of Anti censorship working party when Jerry Springer the Musical was under attack.
As a member of the Federation of International Artists (FIA) equalities steering group she is involved in compiling data on the portrayal of women, with a special emphasis on the older woman with funding won from Europe. Recent research reveals that for every two male roles in a drama there is just one female.. Make sure you join in the protest! Click here to go to the petition.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Jean is a popular public speaker and can be booked for after-dinner and other speaking engagements via womenspeakers.co.uk
AWAY FROM THE SCRIPT
When not studying her lines or appearing in front of an audience Jean has a very active lifestyle. She has a keen interest in painting and has recently sold some of her work. Her creative skills also extend to the written word in both prose and poetry.
Through the BBC School's TV programme Watch, presenting Radio 4's POETRY CORNER and writing scripts and presenting LISTEN WITH MOTHER for nearly ten years, as well as raising her own family, Jean has developed a great insight into the world of the pre-school child. This fuelled her involvement with the Pre-School Playgroup Association as well as other charities notably Leukaemia Research and Mencap. Jean presented a filmed documentary for Mencap alongside Sir Brian Rix.
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