Jessica is a writer and director with a passion for stories that tap into hidden histories, thrilling investigations, world literature, science, existential angst and dysfunctional relationships. She is drawn to complicated, flawed individuals wrestling with matters of the heart and their place in society and the universe. ​​

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Jessica has a number of TV, feature and theatre projects in development.

 

Her TV pilot for Barren, a female-led HETV drama series, set in a fertility clinic, is in development with Misfits Entertainment. The pilot script has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival's Sloan Science and Technology Project Pitch 2026, WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab and is the recipient of a 2025 Society of Authors' Authors’ Foundation grant. Her narrative feature, Bambi, ​tells the origin story of the world's most famous deer. It received a development grant from the Claims Conference Emerging Filmmaker Fund 2025 and the Anglo-Austrian Society's Otto Harpner Fund 2026. 

 

Jessica has been selected for the Criterion New Writing scheme 2026 with her new theatre project, Mademoiselle Manet, exploring Manet and Morisot's story of love and art. As a director, she is developing a genre-bending feature, Vamped, with writer Kate Thorman, which was a finalist for the UK Next Wave Genre Lab 2024. Jessica’s pilot script for her TV series, The Real Margot, was shortlisted for the Sky Arts RSL Writers Award 2021. As a documentary filmmaker, her investigative series, The Ridge, is in studio-funded development with EMMY-winning Submarine Entertainment.​

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Previous credits include: Alchemy of the Word (2025), a drama short about the damned poets, Rimbaud and Verlaine; 250 Years of Jane Austen  (2025), a documentary about Austen's legacy for the Jane Austen Society UK; Love is a Hand Grenade (2021), which played at BFI Flare, Flickers' Rhode Island's Roving Eye, Bolton and Show Me Shorts; Sadeh (2021), a documentary short that screened at the UK Jewish Film Festival, Iris Prize, AmDocs and Cinequest; and an episode of the cybercrime docuseries, Hacker:Hunter (2021); She has worked in immersive and theatre including writing and directing the immersive murder mystery, Wedded to Murder (2024); and translating/directing The Kahena: Berber Queen (2022) as part of Global Jewish Voices at the Bush Theatre.  ​​In 2016, she was awarded the Cointreau Creative Crew Grant for creative entrepreneurs and named Marie Claire's 'Wonder Woman' of the month.

 

Jessica's international upbringing  and heritage continues to inspire her work and practice.