News

6/22

• Jessie's short play Too Much Lesbian Drama: One Star was selected as one of the Top 30 selections (out of over 675 submissions) for the 47th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival! 

5/22 

• FREE TICKETS can be reserved for Piper Theatre's workshop production of Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead now! 

2/22

• Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the SDSU New Musicals Initiative, placing in the top 16 of 160 musicals submitted. 
• Jessie will be directing Twenty-Six Percent by Elspeth Collard & Sam Rosenblatt in the Emerging Artists Theatre New Works Series. 

1/22

• Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead won the Musicals Now Competition and will be receiving a workshop production with Piper Theatre Company this summer! 

12/21

• Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the O'Neill NMTC. 

10/21

• Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead had a sold-out one-night-only reading at The Dixon Place Theatre! 

9/21

• Jessie directed RBO's Wet Wilily: Shakespeare with a Splash! Airing September 17th at 7pm and September 18th at 2pm (est). 

4/21

• Jessie (and her brother, composer Jared Field) are finalists in Mass Opera's New Opera Workshop! Read more about their pitch for new opera The Challenger HERE.
• Jessie's monologue "Circular Wounds" was presented in RBO's Bathroom Monologues. In an exciting turn of events (everyone is okay), Jessie ended up performing the piece for the shows as an understudy. 

1/21

• Jessie co-directed RBO's The Garbage Revue - a bad play competition. You can watch the virtual performance HERE until March 31, 2021. 
• Jessie has become a member of Theatre Now's National Musical Writer's group - with writing partners Gabrielle Mirabella and Ernie Bird!

12/20

• Jessie directed There Never Were Such Devoted by Michele' O'Brien, in The Tank's Rule of 7x7. 

11/20

• Jessie directed a virtual performance of RISE by Gabrielle Mirabella and Ernie Bird in Theatre Now's Sound Bites 7.0
• Jessie directed RBO's staged reading of Inside Siberia by Mallory Jane Weiss

10/20

• A special episode of "Is This Art Now: A Musical in the Time of Corona" has been released! 

9/20

• Jessie has founded Root Beer Occasion Theatre Company with fellow Tisch Alumni Brandy Hoang Collier! 
• Jessie directed RBO's inaugural show, The Living Room Stories.

6/20

• Season 3 of "Is This Art Now: A Musical in the Time of Corona" was released! Watch it HERE

5/20

• Jessie has graduated from NYU Tisch's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program with her MFA! She completed two thesis projects:
  • Return to Grace, a full-length musical with book by Gabrielle Mirabella and music by Ernie Bird
  • Madame President, a 90 minute musical with book by Gabrielle Mirabella and music by Lucy O'Brien. 
• Jessie is working with fellow alum James Salem on a musical webseries! Click HERE to watch "Is This Art Now? A musical in the time of corona," featuring incredible music by composers James Salem, Erin Hoerchler, Sean Eads, Lydia Breckon, Jared Field, Josh Ben-Ami, and Enzo Veiga.
  • Season 2 was released! More seasons in the works. 

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