Jessica Hanna

Jessica Hanna is a Los Angeles based Director, Producer & Space Maker. She is founding Producing Artistic Director of Outside In Theatre, a member of The Kilroys and was Chair of SITI Company’s Board of Directors (2019-2023). Her focus as a director has been on new play development. Including Justin Elizabeth Sayre’s Lottie Plachett Took A Hatchet at The Cavern Club, The Los Angeles LGBT Center and Assembly Roxy Upstairs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Also Sayre’s Three Little Girls Down a Well at The Public Theatre for Under The Radar Festival 2023.  Other world premieres include Deathplay written & performed by Lisa Sanaye Dring at Circle X, as well as Dring’s Hungry Ghost at Skylight Theatre Company; John Ross Bowie’s Four Chords and a Gun, Kerri-Ann McCalla’s The Willows, and Georgette Kelly’s I Carry Your Heart all at Bootleg Theatre, and she directed the Ovation Award winning Priscilla, Queen of the Desert at Celebration Theatre. She is currently developing Kristina Wong, #FoodBankInfluencer which will premiere at ASU Gammage in April 2025. She is thrilled to be working on Califas Trilogy as both the director of Hide & Hide and producer of California Story and Juana Maria. She has been a fan and colleague of Roger Q Mason’s work since 2015 when she produced a reading of their play The White Dress at Bootleg Theatre, where she was Co-Founder and Managing & Producing Director. www.JessQueen.com for more info.