Genevieve Jessee

Genevieve Jessee

GENEVIEVE JESSEE is an actor and playwright based between the San Francisco Bay Area and Puerto Rico. She received a B.A. degree in Theatre Arts from Dillard University of New Orleans, and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Boston University. Her work has been staged at PlayGround’s Center for New Works, The Source Festival, Solo Sundays, Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, San Francisco Fringe Festival, EXIT theatre...
GENEVIEVE JESSEE is an actor and playwright based between the San Francisco Bay Area and Puerto Rico. She received a B.A. degree in Theatre Arts from Dillard University of New Orleans, and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Boston University. Her work has been staged at PlayGround’s Center for New Works, The Source Festival, Solo Sundays, Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, San Francisco Fringe Festival, EXIT theatre and Those Women Productions. She is the recipient of commissions from PlayGround and Planet Earth Arts. Her awards include the June Anne Baker Prize, Best of the San Francisco Fringe (2012), and Emerging Playwright Award (PlayGround). She was a fellow at the 2018 Cultural Diaspora Playwriting Residency at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Her play The Diaspora Cycle is a finalist for the 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and a Semi-finalist for the 2019 O'neill National Playwright's Conference.

Plays

  • The Rendering Cycle by Genevieve Jessee
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    Genre: drama, experimental
    Genre: drama, experimental
    In the spirit of August Wilson’s The Pittsburgh Cycle, The Rendering Cycle explores the African American experience through ten interwoven short plays depicting a saga of inextricable tradition, trauma and joy across continents and characters ranging from present-day United States to West Africa of a millennium past.