is a Los Angeles based director, producer, space maker, member of The Kilroys, Chair of SITI Company’s Board of Directors, and co-founded of the Bootleg Theater. Her focus as a director is on new works development, most recently directing the world premiere of 3 Little Girls Down a Well at Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theatre NYC (2023), and Lottie Plachett Took a Hatchet, in Los Angeles and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2022), both written by Justin Elizabeth Sayre. Selected directing credits include works at Circle X (the world premiere of Deathplay, written & performed by Lisa Sanaye Dring), Celebration Theatre (Ovation Award winning Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), Bootleg Theater, Inkwell Theatre, UCLA, CalState University Long Beach, CalArts, Adobe Rose Theatre (Hostage by Michelle Kholos Brooks), Santa Fe Playhouse (#Undertheinfluence by Kristin Goodman), and Orlando Opera (As One). Jessica is the producing artistic director of Outside In Theatre, a new non-profit theatre company working at the intersection of Theatre and Digital, based in Highland Park, CA.
