Jessica is a playwright, screenwriter and television writer. She is a
graduate of the Dramatic Writing Program at New York University, and
The Juilliard School. Her play Refuge premiered at Playwrights Horizons
and won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, she later went on to adapt and
direct it as a film.
[on her show The Path (2016)] It was a very difficult sell. I think people really responded to it, but were ultimately afraid. I think religion is just a subject people don't feel comfortable taking on. [Variety 2016]