Jessica Moss

Jessica Moss is a performer, writer and producer from Toronto, Canada. She currently lives in New York City, where she is a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School. She is the creator/performer of solo shows Modern Love (Next Stage Festival, Toronto), and Polly Polly (Theatre Mischief at Toronto and Edmonton Fringe; Patron’s Pick, Best of Fringe, Ed Mirvish Award for Entrepreneurship). She is a contributing writer/performer to the collectively created Swoon! (Toronto Fringe) and TEASE (Crows’ Theatre East End Performance Crawl). Her full-length plays include Next to Him (RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwrights Contest Shortlist, Second Prize in Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition, Finalist for Tangent Theatre Tivoli’s NEWvember, Finalist for the SafeWord Theatre New Play Contest), I Will Miss You When You’re Gone and Cam Baby (Toronto Fringe New Play Contest Winner 2015).

She has been nominated for a Canadian Comedy award and the Tom Hendry Emerging Playwright Competition. Her work has been presented at the Canadian Stage Festival for Ideas and Creation, the Toronto International Film Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, Tarragon Theatre, and elsewhere.

As an actor, Jessica has appeared with the National Arts Centre, Tarragon Theatre, Necessary Angel/LuminaTO Festival, SummerWorks, Sudbury Theatre Centre, Young People’s Theatre, and many times at the Toronto Fringe. She produces her work with her company, Theatre Mischief.