Jessie Bear is a writer, playwright and producer based out of New York. With director Erin Mee, she is co-founder and co-artistic director of This is Not A Theatre Company, and has written for a number of the company's productions, including the critically acclaimed Ferry Play (2015), a pod play for the Staten Island Ferry that was deemed "a spirited, meditative performance" by The New York Times (The New York Times, 8/25/15); Readymade Cabaret (Judson Church, 2015), a Dada-inspired cabaret which "succeed[ed] in creating an entertaining and unpredictable atmosphere while packing countless ideas into 60 minutes" (Theatre Is Easy, 5/1/15); and A Serious Banquet (Judson Church/New York Theatre Workshop, 2014), which invited audience members to feast at a cubist dinner party based on the party Pablo Picasso threw for Henri Rousseau in 1908, and was heralded as a “profound immersive theatrical experience where performance and life intertwine effortlessly” (Show Business Weekly, 6/11/14) and an “invitation to experience celebration” (NYTheater Now, 6/10/14). She is also the co-writer (with Charles Mee) of TINATC’s “inventive new work” Pool Play (Waterside Plaza, 2014) which took place entirely in a swimming pool and left audiences “joyous and refreshed – and maybe a little wet” (Show Business Weekly, 2/12/14).
Jessie is the writer, producer, and star of Type What Now, inspired by her popular blog by the same name which chronicles her experience with diabetes. Type What Now premiered to a sold-out run at the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival, where it was named a FringeFAVE and a Theatre Is Easy Best Bet. Other work includes Makeshift (Plays and Players with Murmuration Theater Company, 2013), Little Talks (Theater for the New City, 2013, dir. Eduardo Machado), In Event of Moon Disaster (Telephone Bronco Theater Company, Dixon Place, 2013), Cartogoraphasia (Telephone Bronco Theater Company, Philly Fringe, 2010), and Preparations for Departure (Matchbox Theater Company, Philly Fringe, 2009). Jessie holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, and in 2013, she received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and American Theatre magazine, and supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The New York International Fringe Festival, Theaterlab, FIBA, and the Swarthmore Project in Theater, among others. www.thejessbear.com
Jessie is the writer, producer, and star of Type What Now, inspired by her popular blog by the same name which chronicles her experience with diabetes. Type What Now premiered to a sold-out run at the 2015 New York International Fringe Festival, where it was named a FringeFAVE and a Theatre Is Easy Best Bet. Other work includes Makeshift (Plays and Players with Murmuration Theater Company, 2013), Little Talks (Theater for the New City, 2013, dir. Eduardo Machado), In Event of Moon Disaster (Telephone Bronco Theater Company, Dixon Place, 2013), Cartogoraphasia (Telephone Bronco Theater Company, Philly Fringe, 2010), and Preparations for Departure (Matchbox Theater Company, Philly Fringe, 2009). Jessie holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, and in 2013, she received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and American Theatre magazine, and supported by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The New York International Fringe Festival, Theaterlab, FIBA, and the Swarthmore Project in Theater, among others. www.thejessbear.com