Jessica Dickey
Jessica Dickey is an award-winning playwright whose writing was hailed by the New York Times as having “freshness, economy, cheeky vulgarity, with a fine measure of poetic insight”, and New Yorker magazine as “funny, smart, deep and sad”. Jessie is most known for her award-winning play The Amish Project, which premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival, transferred to the Cherry Lane, and officially premiered Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and has since been produced around the world. Other theatrical premieres have included Galileo’s Daughter, Nan and the Lower Body, The Convent, The Rembrandt, Charles Ives Take Me Home, and Row After Row. Jessie recently published a book with her sister called Sistering: The Art of Holding Close and Letting Go (Pilgrim Press, May 2023). She is a proud alum of the elite playwriting residency New Dramatists. In television and film, Jessie has written or developed for Apple TV, ABC, Searchlight, Paramount TV, and Netflix. Jessie divides her time between Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and the south of France. www.jessicadickey.com
