Jessica is an arts administrator, educator, and costume designer. As a Mexican-American, Jessica utilizes her professional experiences as an educator and designer to center diverse stories from a broad range of voices.
As a founding member of The Woodshed Collective, Jessica produced many immersive theater projects in and around NYC. As an Educator, Jessica has worked with Pace University, Playwrights Horizon’s Theater School, NYU, University of Rochester, and Williamstown Theater Festival. Her mentorship with Wendy Wasserstein’s Open Doors program is formative in how she thinks about emerging artists and theater audiences.
Recent theatre design projects: THE COST OF LIVING by Martyna Majok, directed by Jo Bonney on Broadway at the Samuel Friedman Theatre; LITTLE BEAR RIDGE ROAD by Samuel D. Hunter directed by Joe Mantello and starring Laurie Metcalf; INHERIT THE WIND by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, directed by Henry Godinez, and ROE by Lisa Loomer, directed by Vanessa Stalling both at the Goodman’s Albert Theatre. Other Broadway credits include The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of MARVIN'S ROOM by Scott McPherson directed by Anne Kauffman starring Lili Taylor, Celia Weston, and Janeane Garofalo and THE HEIDI CHRONICLES by Wendy Wasserstein, directed by Pam MacKinnon starring Elisabeth Moss, Jason Biggs, and Bryce Pinkham.
Jessica's work has also been featured at Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theater, Second Stage, Barrow Street Theater, Two Rivers Theater, Denver Theater Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others.
Jessica has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award and for the Henry Hewes Design Award multiple times. Jessica won the 2013 Lucille Lortel Best Costume Design for Samuel D. Hunter's THE WHALE.
