Jessica is a playwright, arts administrator and sometimes waitress who originally hails from Oakville, Ontario. She attended Etobicoke School of the Arts and has an honours B.A. in Drama and English literature from Queen’s University. She is also a graduate of the Algonquin College Scriptwriting program. Her full-length play My Purple Wig won the Special Merit Award in Theatre BC’s National Playwriting Competition and was short-listed for the RBC Tarragon Under Thirty Playwriting Competition in 2009. My Purple Wig was given a public reading in Nanaimo, BC as part of the TheatreOne’s Emerging Voices festival. Her one-act play The Gods and Calvin Brewer came in third in Pat the Dog’s 24-hour playwriting contest, received an honourable mention in Ottawa Little Theatre’s National One-Act play contest and was 1st-runner up in the Hamilton Fringe New Play contest.  The Gods and Calvin Brewer was part of Pat the Dog's piece/meal series in November 2011. She currently resides in Ottawa.