Jennifer Wood is a choreographer, performer, teacher, and costume designer based in Houston Texas. She began dancing professionally in 1986 and began her choreographic career in 1993.

Jennifer is the founder and director of Suchu Dance, which serves as the vehicle for Jennifer's choreography and artistic vision. Since 1993, Choreographer Jennifer Wood has choreographed 77 original length works, with 31 being evening length created for Suchu Dance. 2013 marked 20 years of her remarkable journey. works for Suchu Dance.

Jennifer's works have been presented in many venues in Houston including Diverse Works, the Wortham Theater, Miller Outdoor Theater, the Jewish Community Center, Main Street Theater Chelsea, Atomic Cafe, University of Houston Cullen Theater, the Heinen Theater, the Barnevelder Theater, as well as in other parts of Texas, including Sam Houston State University, University of Texas, Texas A&M.; Outside of Texas, her work has been presented at the historic Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inside/Out Series in Becket, MA, and in performances in Atlanta, San Diego and most recently, Las Vegas.

Jennifer is the co-founder of two performing spaces in Houston: The Duplex, an alternative salon-style performance venue for contemporary dance which showcased her and other choreographers' works between 1993 and 1999, and Barnevelder, a 7,000 square foot performance and rehearsal facility specifically designed for dance which opened in 2001.

Jennifer is the recipient of a 2008 Buffy Award for Best Evening Length Choreographic Work. In 2001 Jennifer was named a U.S. semi-finalist in the 2002 Rencontres Choreographiques international choreography competition and she is the recipient of a 2002, 2006 and 2010 Individual Artist Fellowship in choreography from the Houston Arts Alliance. Jennifer was awarded performance residencies at Diverse Works in 2000 and 2002.

Jennifer has also collaborated with theater companies as a choreographer. In 2005 she was invited to collaborate with Infernal Bridegroom Productions in their new version of Medea. More recently, in 2012, Jennifer choreographed for Mildred's Umbrella Theater Company's production of Dead Man's Cell Phone and in 2013 for their production of Carnival Round the Central Figure.

In recent years Jennifer's interests have grown to include site specific and non-traditional performance spaces. One of her most current works, Afternono, premiered in June 2012 and was conceived and choreographed for 16 dancers in an empty, re-claimed 50,000 square foot J.C Penny. This work was the inaugural presentation in this former department store which is being re-purposed as an arts facility called the West Oaks Art House.

Jennifer has been dancing, teaching and working with dancers to experience movement for over 20 years. Through this time, Jennifer has enjoyed teaching Suchu Dance professional level company class, and has taught master classes at the Big Range Dance Festival, Houston Dance Festival, Sam Houston State University, and and also worked with with college and high school students during residencies at Emory University, University of Houston, Rice University, and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.