Drama Teacher and Acting Coach
“The distance between dreams and reality is called *action*”
Jessica has an array of talents that include: Actress, Voiceover Artist, Theatre Educator/Teacher, Acting/Public Speaking Coach, Writer and Editor. She is a graduate of Bronxville High School, Fordham College @ Lincoln Center (BA in Theatre), and the Lincoln Center Scholars/Hunter College Masters Degree program (MA in Theater Education).
She has performed in NYC at Off Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway venues for years, as well as Touring in a National Production of 'The Diary of Anne Frank'. She has worked extensively with the Red Monkey Theater Group, and has various TV and Film credits, including being a co-host of a wine show called 'From Grapes to Glass'.
She has taught Drama to children, teens and adults at places such as Sarah Lawrence College (summer camp), The Van Nest Academy, The Bronxville Adult School, worked as a Teaching Artist in a number of NYC schools, and is currently the Full-Time Theater Teacher in the NYC DOE @ a school on the UWS in NYC.
She is interested in Transformational Storytelling, and hopes to inspire, educate and teach empathy by sharing her humanity through compelling, storytelling endeavors. She has been a TedX coach, helping presenters get over stage fright and enhancing their storytelling skills. With her Theatre Teaching, she wants students to find connections between something inside themselves, and something external. A spark gets created in that space, and an energy, to question, and think about things differently….that’s exciting!
Empathy is one of the most important things we use, as Theater Artists and Educators. Learning to understand the ‘other’, put yourself in someone else’s shoes, and feel for them is crucial in being a good human AND a good Actor/Actress.
Theatre reconnects us as human beings by bringing people together in one space, to follow a story together. There’s a power and energy in that, like nothing else. She believes Art really is a friendly, civil way to wrestle with any kind of problem, which is desperately needed in the world, now more than ever.
“🎭 Theatre - there’s no app for that 🎭”