Costume Design

About

b. 1986, HK.

 

Jessica is a costume designer for theatre and film. Jessica identifies as a cis, white, Mexican American female.

Recent theatre projects: THE COST OF LIVING by Martyna Majok, directed by Jo Bonney on Broadway at the Samuel Friedman Theatre; MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, by Keith Ludwig, directed by Jessica Fisch at the Drury Lane Theatre; ROE by Lisa Loomer, directed by Vanessa Stalling at the Goodman Theatre. Other Broadway credits include The Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of MARVIN'S ROOM by Scott McPherson directed by Anne Kauffman starring Lili Taylor, Celia Weston, and Janeane Garofalo and THE HEIDI CHRONICLES by Wendy Wasserstein, directed by Pam MacKinnon starring Elisabeth Moss, Jason Biggs, and Bryce Pinkham.

Jessica's work has been featured at Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theater, Second Stage, Barrow Street Theater, Two Rivers Theater, Denver Theater Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, among others.

Jessica has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award and for the Henry Hewes Design Award multiple times. Jessica won the 2013 Lucille Lortel Best Costume Design for Samuel D. Hunter's THE WHALE. 

Jessica loves thrift stores, vintage Life Magazines, and tote bags. She believes passionately that character and costume go hand in hand and is constantly on the hunt for the perfect identifying accessory, stain, hole, or the unexpected contents of a pants pocket.