Jessica Bird Beza (she/her) is a Bay Area based director, Executive Artistic Director at Playwrights Foundation, and intuitive life coach. She is dedicated to the intersection of artistic innovation and organizational health and builds sustainable, equity-driven ecosystems that prioritize human-centered storytelling and community care. She has held producing positions at The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, and Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company. Other select roles include National New Play Network Producer in Residence and Casting Director at San Diego Repertory Theatre as well as multiple consultant positions supporting casting, producing and fundraising. She is currently a board member at National New Play Network and has her MA in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from University of San...
Jessica Bird Beza (she/her) is a Bay Area based director, Executive Artistic Director at Playwrights Foundation, and intuitive life coach. She is dedicated to the intersection of artistic innovation and organizational health and builds sustainable, equity-driven ecosystems that prioritize human-centered storytelling and community care. She has held producing positions at The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, and Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company. Other select roles include National New Play Network Producer in Residence and Casting Director at San Diego Repertory Theatre as well as multiple consultant positions supporting casting, producing and fundraising. She is currently a board member at National New Play Network and has her MA in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from University of San Diego.
Throughout her career, she has had a special focus on developing new work, producing multiple new play festivals, and had the opportunity to work, as a director or producer, with over 100 living playwrights. She also served as Associate Director on the Tony award winning Broadway musical COME FROM AWAY from its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse in 2015 to Broadway in 2017.
She has developed new work at Theatreworks Silicon Valley, American Conservatory Theatre, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego REP, Diversionary Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, NYU Musical Theatre Graduate Program, and Playwrights Foundation. Select directing projects include: a San Francisco based Urinetown: the musical in ACT’s conservatory program, NNPN rolling world premiere of Uncanny Valley at San Diego REP, a surrealist interpretation of God of Carnage at New Village Arts, Car Plays (literally in a car) during La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival as well as co-writing and directing the BRAVO award winning one-woman show Woman in the Mirror: A Dancer’s Journey starring Michael Jackson impersonator Devra Gregory.
She is passionate about empowering others to realize their full potential in her nonprofit work and also as an intuitive life coach where she supports people with chronic illnesses, artists, and women move beyond survival to create a happier, healthier life by listening to their body's intuitive wisdom. Check her out on her website Jessica Bird Beza Intuitive Life Coach: https://paperbell.me/jessica-bird-beza.