Jennifer Cousin is an actress, director and sound artist. She trained as an actress at the Conservatoire de Rennes, then as a director at INSAS (Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle de la fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles). She discovered the world of sound with Brice Cannavo, and directed Trésor de ma vie, a documentary portrait of Armand, an intriguing neighbour who lives alone with his canary in the old family home.

She created Mode Majeur de la fugue in 2016 at the OUTSAS festival, a documentary for which she received the Bourse Découverte Pierre Schaeffer at the Phonurgia Nova Awards and the Prix du Fonds Marie-Paule Delvaux Godenne. At the end of 2016, she attended the sound training course La Coquille (ACSR). She acted in Dennis Kelly’s Orphans, directed by Elsa Chêne, and then created the sound for her performance MUR/MER. In 2017-2018 she directed the experimental radio creation On écoute la radio et parfois on l’entend, supported by the ACSR’s Bourse Empreinte, and became assistant director and sound designer to Lorette Moreau for (:) at the Festival Émulation.

Between 2022 and 2024, she collaborated on the dramaturgy of Juste la fin du monde, directed by Hugo Favier, and produced two radio plays supported by the FACR: Je voulais juste que l’on me touche, a documentary on listening and violence in sexuality, and Les gros bras de Polka, a children’s drama about the journey of an unusual little girl.