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 with/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 include ABC's Mixology and NBC's Blake Shelton's Not So Family Christmas; as well as Lionsgate's Breaking Wind, a spoof on Twilight, where she plays Anna Kendrick's character. Jessica was featured in Quirky Female Protagonist (Film Independent's LAFF), Philanthropy (Dances with Films), and What About Me? (Geena Davis' Bentonville Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival).
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.