Jessica is a hearing impaired-but-you'd-never-know-it writer, actress, comedian, and producer who specializes in multi-camera comedy and hard jokes. She developed a sitcom for Patrick Dempsey and advanced to the final rounds of the Disney Writing Program. Her spec scripts have placed in the Final Draft Big Break, Austin Film Festival, and ScreenCraft Comedy competitions. She's written for Hulu's sketch comedy show, Betch, and her own sketches and series have been featured on the homepages of Funny or Die and Elizabeth Banks' WhoHaHa. Jessica has preformed stand-up around Los Angeles at the Improv, Comedy Store, and Laugh Factory.
As a writer-actor, her short, Goldfish, premiered at LA Shorts and her play, Otherwise, Engaged had a sold-out, extended Los Angeles run.
Jessica's acting credits span ABC, NBC, FX, and Lionsgate. Her work has been featured at Film Independent's LAFF, Dances with Films, Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival, and the Nashville Film Festival, among others.
Jessica is originally from New Jersey and received her BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts via the Atlantic Theater Company. She teaches acting at Lesly Kahn & Co. and studies there as well. Jessica loves McDonald's Coke, wearing caftans on yachts, and the Olympics. Her favorite character of fiction is Karen Walker.