jessica holt

Direction

Jessica Holt (Director) is an aesthetically omnivorous director equally as at home directing new and contemporary plays and musicals as she is reinvestigating classics for what they have to say to us here, now, today. Selected directing credits include: Ironbound by Martyna Majok (A.C.T.), Fun Home, Kate Hamill’s Sense and Sensibility, Venus in Fur (Virginia Stage Company), The Resting Place, Bright Half Life, The Lily's Revenge, Act 5 (Magic Theatre), Speech and Debate (Barrington Stage Company), Rich Girl (Florida Studio Theatre), The Daughters (San Francisco Playhouse), Ugly Lies the Bone (Alliance Theater), and The Wolves (A.C.T.’s Young Conservatory). She has also developed and directed work at Cape Cod Theatre Project, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Magic Theatre, Berkeley Rep's Ground Floor, Rivendell Theatre, NYU, Pocono Mountains Music Festival, AADA, BAPF, Sewanee Writers Conference, among others. Jessica is a 2016 National Directors Fellow, as well as a proud member of the following organizations: SDC, Ring of Keys, and Wingspace. MFA in Directing: Yale School of Drama. She is currently in development with The Kilbanes on their new rock musical The Code, a commission by A.C.T.’s Young Conservatory, and will direct the A.C.T. MFA Class of 2021’s upcoming filmed showcase.