Biography

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. Her spec scripts have placed in the Final Draft Big Break, Austin Film Festival, and ScreenCraft Comedy competitions, and she's written for Hulu's sketch comedy show, Betch. Her own sketches and series have been featured on the homepages of Funny or Die and Elizabeth Banks' WhoHaHa, and she's preformed stand-up around Los Angeles at the Improv, Comedy Store, and Laugh Factory.

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. She was featured in the series Quirky Female Protagonist, which premiered at Film Independent's Los Angeles Film Festival; and most recently starred in the short film, Philanthropy, which premiered at Dances With Films.

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous