Jessica Ernst

Jessica Ernst is a freelance director/producer in the greater Boston area. Her directing credits include Romeo and Juliet (Eastern Nazarene College), Henry IV (Praxis Stage), The Women Who Mapped The Stars (The Nora Theatre Company, world premiere), Daughter of Venus (Artists’ Theatre of Boston), The Love of the Nightingale (Open Theatre Project), The Weaver of Raveloe (Oberon, world premiere), Hedda Gabler (The Longwood Players), and various short plays and staged readings. She is currently developing a 3-actor adaptation of The Tempest that incorporates Shakespeare’s text in both its original form and translated into sign language, performed by both hearing and Deaf actors. She is the managing director of Sleeping Weazel, a Boston fringe theatre company focused on creating experimental and multimedia new theatrical works with a social justice focus. For Sleeping Weazel, she is producing and orchestrating a short film entitled Living Landscapes: a compilation of four personal meditations on the relationship between Black, Indigenous, and Latinx performing artists and specific locations in the greater Boston area. It will be released in late May. Jessica is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Arts Administration at Boston University and is a graduate of Gettysburg College.