Cast & Creative

JESSI D. HILL is a theatre director based in New York City. Latest NYC credits include Off-Broadway productions of Robert Montano’s Small (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Nominations) at Signature, Crystal Skillman’s Open (NY Times Critic’s Pick) at Women’s Project, Matthew Freeman’s The Ask (Drama Desk Award Nomination) at the wild project, Chisa Hutchinson’s Surely Goodness and Mercy at Keen Company, Larissa FastHorse’s Vanishing Point at HERE Arts Center, and Cusi Cram’s The Helpers at 59E59, among others. NYC credits include new work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater/Joe’s Pub, The Playwrights’ Center, Primary Stages, Labyrinth, The Women’s Project, 59E59, P73, Cubbed Thumb, LaMama, The New Group, Rattlestick, Ensemble Studio Theatre, terraNOVA Collective, Culture Project, Musical Theatre Factory, The Acting Company, The Barrow Group, PS122, Abingdon, Baruch Performing Arts Center, New Dramatists, The Playwrights Realm, New Georges and others. Recent Regional Credits: Old Globe, George St. Playhouse, A.R.T, Denver Center, People’s Light, Diversionary, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, TheatreSquared, and others. She has been a director and teacher in professional training programs at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center/NTI, Fordham University, Powerhouse/NY Stage & Film, NYU/Tisch, The Atlantic School, Playwrights Horizons, and others. Jessi is a recipient of the Denham Fellowship from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, an Alum of the Women’s Project Lab, and an Affiliated Artist at New Georges. Her work has been seen internationally in Amsterdam, Edinburgh, London, New Zealand, Berlin, Hamburg, Brussels, Ukraine and Rome. MFA: Yale.