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Who am I? No seriously if you know, tell me. 
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JESSIE FIELD (she/her) is an award-winning queer NYC playwright and director. Her short play, Too Much Lesbian Drama: One Star is a winner of the 47th Annual Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival. She has written book and/or lyrics for numerous projects, including Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead (WINNER 2022 Musicals Now Competition, Semi-finalist for the O'Neill MT Conference, Semi-finalist for SDSU New Musicals Initiative), Madam President (workshopped at the Ferguson CenterNew Musicals Lab), Ren Faire (currently being developed with Theatre Now), La Maupin (WINNER 2018 International MUT Competition, WINNER Audience Favorite – 2017 Fresh Fruit Festival) and Rachel (2018 JDT Lab Selection, WINNER Outstanding Musical – 2015 Fresh Fruit Festival, 2013 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Best Original Play). Jessie has also written TYA straight play To The West, which was a finalist in the Growing Stage’s New Play Reading Festival and was presented as the school play at Randolph High School in 2018. Jessie did her directing apprenticeship at Capital Stage in Sacramento, California, and has directed numerous plays in the Boston and New York areas.  She earned her MFA at NYU Tisch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and her BA at Brandeis University. She is represented by John Thornton and Claire Jennings of Fourth Wall Management. 

Jessie Field is deeply committed to honest and compassionate storytelling, particularly centering nuanced queer joy. ​

PictureJessie Field & James Martinez Salem, definitely writing for real and not faking it.

​Can't get enough JField? Wow, that's so nice of you! Here are some tangentially related links you can continue to stalk her and her work at: 
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  • RBO Theatre Co, Inc.
  • Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead Official Website
  • Is This Art Now? YouTube Channel
  • James Salem Musicals  (#teamrocket)

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