Keri Jens

As Gilbert & Sullivan’s resident linguist, Keri has been responsible for such indispensable undertakings as providing the correct transcription of the word “pirate” into the International Phonetic Alphabet, and explaining the meaning of “magnanimity”. She also serves as G&S’s human pitch pipe and is perhaps most fondly remembered by castmates for her brilliant renditions of F and middle C during the January 2005 production of The Pirates of Penzance.

Although in theory she gave up theatre to pursue a career in linguistics, Keri can’t seem to go more than a few months without participating in some sort of musical or theatrical dealie or other. In addition to playing Kate in G&S’s Pirates, she has been spotted around Vancouver performing in The Shakespeare Project’s presentation of the Sonnets and Theatre at UBC’s production of Oh! What a Lovely War, as well as working as a teacher’s >assistant at the Arts Umbrella Visual and Performing Arts School on Granville Island, and has now undertaken the most indispensable task of being G&S’s newest Member at Large. In her limited spare time, Keri curls up in a ball on the floor and dreams of a world without syntax.