Jessica Marie Fisher

Jessica Marie Fisher

Jessica Fisher (She/They) is an actor, playwright, voiceover artist, and kids podcast host (yes, that’s a thing) originally from New Jersey, now living in Los Angeles. They attended Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and New Studio at Tisch School of the Arts NYU. Their one-act "Rules for Coming Out…" was published by Original Works in 2019, and their full-length Scrambled Eggs had its workshop...
Jessica Fisher (She/They) is an actor, playwright, voiceover artist, and kids podcast host (yes, that’s a thing) originally from New Jersey, now living in Los Angeles. They attended Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and New Studio at Tisch School of the Arts NYU. Their one-act "Rules for Coming Out…" was published by Original Works in 2019, and their full-length Scrambled Eggs had its workshop presentation at the Broadwater Black Box November 2021 before heading over to B3 Theatre in Phoenix, AZ where it won best new script at the AriZoni Theatre Awards. Jess is also proud to be a repeat playwright at Hickory Playground, North Carolina. Jess is currently developing her newest full-length, "Another Reason Not to Go," sponsored by Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. The reading presentation is upcoming in June 2024. She is a proud member of Dramatists Guild and you can find her other works at her website JessicaMarieFisher.com, and unfortunately, on TikTok @Jess.Fisher5.

Plays

  • Another Reason Not to Go
    While Gabby was in college in New York, she noticed her step family in Colorado Springs becoming increasingly religious. She felt less welcome each time she went home for holidays. One summer she saw physical abuse and made the impulse decision to move her mother out. With this choice, she saved her mom, but she also destroyed her family unit. Her step brothers stopped talking to her and her step father soon...
    While Gabby was in college in New York, she noticed her step family in Colorado Springs becoming increasingly religious. She felt less welcome each time she went home for holidays. One summer she saw physical abuse and made the impulse decision to move her mother out. With this choice, she saved her mom, but she also destroyed her family unit. Her step brothers stopped talking to her and her step father soon died.

    Four years later, Gabby is living with her fiance Autumn when she receives a wedding invitation from one of her ex-step-brothers. She's surprised to find that she actually wants to attend. At the wedding in the megachurch capital of the US, Gabby and Autumn confront her trauma, both of their feelings of loss, and the shortcomings of their life without community.

    What is lost when you say goodbye to family? What is gained when you can hold again that which you let go? Why do we stay, and how does it feel to know we can never return? Why do we yearn to know for certain the things that we never possibly can?
  • Scrambled Eggs
    It is 1949, and Whitney feels isolated. James thinks Whitney is unwell. Doris is a homosexual...so is Maggie. Maggie is pregnant and anxious. Frank doesn't know how to help her. Richard has PTSD from the war and drinks too much. Helen doesn't know how to help him either. Doctor Walter Freeman II claims that he has a solution.
  • Rules for Coming Out When You're in the Driver's Seat of Your Mom's Camry
    It is senior year of winter break 2015, and best friends Lauren and Liam are parked in cars roughly 13 miles from each other. Liam calls Lauren frantically because he has a crush on a boy, which is new. These two 17-year-olds frantically discuss sexuality, family, relationships, all while grappling with their own imperfect friendship. *Perfect for virtual performance, as it is set over the phone*
  • Imagined Dialogs (as a Preparation of Real Conversations And/Or as a Means of Feeling Less Fucking Alone)
    Louisa spends her evenings pretending she isn’t all alone: imagining the conversations she should, could, and would have with the men in her life who are currently inaccessible.
  • The Best Babysitter
    Corrine is a 17-year-old religious, hardworking girl living in 2010 Colorado Springs. Veronica used to be Corrine's babysitter, but is now a 27-year-old drug dealer. Corrine orders ritalin for studying and Veronica is the deliverer. It's an unexpected reunion that leads to plenty of discoveries. This play is about queerness, relationships, growing up, sex, imagination, and loneliness.
  • Cards! Let's Play Cards
    James and Whitney are married and they have just returned from Whitney's ex husband's funeral. Whitney is depressed, James wants to help.
  • Couzinz Club!!!
    Three cousins who are probably too old to have to sleep in the Kids Room talk family, growing up, divorce, and booze in their grandma's attic.