Jennifer Trijo is a Filipino-Australian multi-disciplinary creative based in Adelaide. She holds a Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Education (UNSW) and honed her craft as a cabaret singer and musician, touring with Skeed Entertainment. She is credited in notable theatre productions as a performer, orchestral musician, composer, and music director, and made her professional debut as Kim in the Australian tour of Miss Saigon.
She has written and produced the critically-acclaimed show Someday – a Mindful Cabaret which features her original music combined with spoken word and motivational talks based on mindfulness and psychology. She has studied a Diploma of Positive Psychology and is passionate about how the arts can improve psychological wellbeing.
Jennifer is an actor at ActNow Theatre, a musician in the Nexus Arts Orchestra, and a voice coach at the Elder Conservatorium of Music training emerging music theatre artists. She has been a member of the MEAA since 2007. She recently toured as an actor-musician in the Australian production of Once the Musical (DTC | BSSTC).
During July, I played a number of gigs as part of the Umbrella Festival, South Australia’s winter music festival. The shows were produced by Emma Knights Productions. Emma, a prolific singer-songwriter herself, is an advocate for original music and I’m grateful that she’s included me in her artist lineup this year. I’ve performed at UrrbraeContinue reading “Umbrella Festival is a wrap”
I didn’t anticipate such a long break between part one and part two of my reflections on this particular project, however, life threw me and my fellow creatives an unexpected curve ball in mid 2021. Our last show was on Tuesday 22 June last year, following this we were in extended lock down in NewContinue reading “Once Australia – Part Two”
It’s been too long since my last Meditations blog entry. I’ve been busy manifesting and creating so this is going to be an overview to cover the past couple of months since the Adelaide Fringe Festival ended and I wrapped up a successful premiere season of my show Someday. Auditions A few days after my finalContinue reading “Once Australia – Part One”
I’ve been very busy over the past month refining my new original music show for the Adelaide Fringe Festival. After developing the single ‘Someday‘ through the Interplay artist development program in 2020, I’ve decided to curate a selection of my original songs to present as a mindful cabaret. I’ve incorporated positive psychology and neuroscience intoContinue reading “Someday (Music/Cabaret) | Adelaide Fringe Festival”