Jenny Davis OAM

Jenny Davis OAM emigrated from England in 1976 with her husband and two children and is an actress and director, living in Mt Hawthorn. Jenny was, for many years, director of the West Australian Youth Theatre. She was also a writer for ABC schools radio for ten years. The founder of Agelink Theatre, she has dedicated her life since 1993 to celebrating the lives of local seniors by using their stories to entertain the community through theatre. She has written and directed many plays for Agelink, including Dear Heart, which was also published as a novel in 1998 by Allen & Unwin. Most recently, she created the successful programme Recapture the Moment, an ongoing project which uses reminiscence arts, theatre and music to engage and stimulate people with dementia.  In 2001 she received a Centenary Medal for services to West Australian theatre. In 2016, as well as being awarded an Order of Australia Medal, Jenny received at the 2016 WA Seniors Awards the award for Arts and Culture and was named Juniper Champion for Seniors. In 2017 she was inducted into the Western Australian Women’s Hall of Fame. We met with Jenny at her beautiful home and had our conversation surrounded by all of Jenny’s gorgeous historical home furnishings.