JESSICA ALMASY is a playwright, actress, and an award-winning voiceover artist. Since 2004, she has been a cofounding member and Co-Artistic Director of the TEAM, an award-winning performance collective once described as “Gertrude Stein meets MTV.” Her performing credits with the TEAM include A Thousand Natural Shocks; Give Up! Start Over! (In the darkest of times I look to Richard Nixon for hope),Particularly in the Heartland, and Twelfth Night. Almasy has also appeared in plays by well-known NYC theatre makers, including Small Mouth Sounds at Ars Nova, directed by Rachel Chavkin, and Play Company’s production of Enjoy. She has been recently seen onstage at Dixon Place in Kate Benson’s Obie-Award winning A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes and Kristine Haruna Lee’s War Lesbian. Her film and TV acting credits include TV series Law and Order and features Unconscious and Noise. Her work as a voiceover actress and audiobook narrator garnered her two Audie Awards, a Golden Voice, and several Golden Earphones awards. Almasy holds a BFA degree from NYU and is also an alumna of the Brooklyn College Playwriting department, one of the most esteemed programs of its kind nationwide.

This DP commission is made possible w/public funds from NYS Council on the Arts w/the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo & NYS Legislature, NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership w/ City Council, and private funds from the Peg Santvoord Foundation & the Jerome Foundation.

Equity Approved Showcase.