WAM’s Associate Artistic Director Talya Kingston sat down with award-winning playwright Jessica Dickey, who wrote Galileo’s Daughter, to talk about her inspirations, how being an actor affects how she writes plays, and the central questions and themes of the play:

“Questions of loyalty and faith and personal truth and personal sovereignty… What does it cost to have a revelation? What does it cost to speak your revelation? What is loyalty? What do we choose to serve? What concessions to we make to stay with what we believe in? What are the costs when we choose to speak our truths against what we’ve claimed to serve?”

Tickets to Galileo’s Daughter: https://www.wamtheatre.com/galileos-daughter/
For more about Jessica Dickey: https://www.jessicadickey.com/

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