Director

Jessi is a theatre director based in New York City. New York credits include new work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater/Joe’s Pub, 59E59, P73, The New Group, Rattlestick and many others. She has been a director and teacher at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center/NTI, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, and others. She is currently Artistic Director of The Flying Carpet Theatre Co and is on the Artistic Team at Rattlestick Theater. Her work has been seen internationally in Edinburgh, London, New Zealand, Berlin, Hamburg Rome and Venice. Director - Jessi D. Hill

Projection Design

They’ve designed for major companies and theaters all over the world including: The Industry, Vienna State Opera, Oper Frankfurt, Walt Disney Creative Entertainment, Center Theatre Group, LA Philharmonic, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Carnegie Hall, The Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, New World Orchestra, The Public Theatre, Broadway, The Guthrie Theatre, Kansas City Rep, The Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, and Ars Nova. Collectively they have won two Los Angeles Ovation Awards, four LADCC awards, as well as having work showcased at the Prague Quadrennial in 2019, 2015, and 2011.

Lighting Design

Kate is the Resident Lighting Designer for Williams College Dance Department and Syren Modern Dance. Kate’s work was selected for the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, and she was nominated for a 2011 Henry Hewes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. She made her Public Theater debut in February 2015 with Josephine & I, directed by Phyllida Lloyd. In 2016, Kate lit director Edward Berkeley’s adaptation of Romeo & Juliet at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop.

Sound Design

In New York City Jane’s design and composition work includes The Killer, Measure for Measure (Theater for a New Audience), Actually (MTC/Williamstown Theatre Festival), Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons/ Drama Desk Nomination), Ironbound (Rattlestick, Women's Project), and numerous productions at the Mint and the Pearl.

International touring includes Merce Cunningham, Baryshnikov Productions, and Wind Up Bird Chronicles.