Member since 2004

At MagnaCarta
Artistic Director since 2005

Actor
2.5 Minute Ride
Lusting After Pipino's Wife - Understudy (Lorraine)

Director
Collected Stories

Bio
Born in Brooklyn NY, Jessica is celebrating her seventh year residing in Los Angeles.   This is her debut directing on the Los Angeles stage after assisting in several productions including Dorothy Lyman’s one woman show My Kitchen Wars.  Her first success at directing occurred at the age of eleven when she convinced her elementary school principle to shut down for two afternoons and have the school attend her rendition of Bye Bye Birdie. In later years Jessica went on to direct the Neil Simon Trilogy of Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound and Biloxi Blues. Steering away from what felt familiar, she went on to direct Dog Opera by Constance Congdon for which she won an award from the state of West Virginia for AIDS awareness. Continuing on the path of social consciousness Jessica successfully brought to the stage Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive. Over the years she has tackled playwrights from Durang to Stoppard. Jessica received her BFA from WVU from which she graduated with honors. She also holds a certificate in Shakespearean Studies from Oxford University in England. She stands as the current artistic director of The MagnaCarta Theater Company and proudly works at the Music Center for the Arts in downtown Los Angeles.

Other Theatre Credits Include
The Actor's Gang - LA: C-Boy
BADA - Oxford, England:  Importance of Being Earnest, Othello
Tour:  Through the Eyes of HIV: A Journal Comes to Life
Heights Players - NYC:  Christmas Carol, Annie Get Your Gun, Peter Pan

Film
Rest Stop

Television
Titans (NBC-Spelling Ent.), All My Children (ABC), Seven Dust (MTV), Joe's Apartment (MTV), The Levi Jean (PBS-NYC), Discoveries in Health (WVPT), The Power of Giving (PBS-NYC)

Birthplace
New York (Brooklyn), NY

Contact
  jzweiman@yahoo.com

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