Jenn Freeman, also known as Po’Chop, is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and burlesque performer. Freeman uses elements of dance, storytelling, and striptease to expel antiqued notions of blackness, queer identity, spirituality, rage, and healing. They have shared work at the Brooklyn Museum, Steppenwolf Theatre, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago and have been featured in performances including Jamila Woods’ Legacy! Legacy! Unfolded (2019) and season two of Netflix’s Easy (2017).

Freeman’s 2019 work The People’s Church of the G.H.E.T.T.O (Greatest History Ever Told To Our People) combines dance, ritual, and poetry. It reimagines a worship service rooted in the life and work of Audre Lorde and is dedicated to the education and edification of Black women. It was performed at Blanc Gallery in Chicago.

Freeman has received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant (2021), an Illinois Arts Council Agency Artist Fellowship (2021), a dance residency from Rebuild Foundation (2020), an Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center Initiative Fellowship (2020), and a Chicago DanceMakers Forum Lab Artist grant (2018). Po’Chop serves as a board member and cast member for Jeezy’s Juke Joint, an all-Black burlesque revue.