Jessica McVay

She/Her
Jessica Rose McVay is a London based director, movement director, producer, and founder of Jessica Rose McVay Productions Ltd. She is a graduate of UCLA’s School of Theater Film and Television with a BA in Theater Arts with a specialization in direction, and a minor in Asian Humanities, and of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School where she earned her MA in Drama Directing, and won the Elsa Roberts Directing Award for her production of Sarah Kane’s Crave.
Jessica is passionate about collaborative, ensemble-based work focusing on underrepresented and unheard voices. In the United States Jessica has worked on Broadway, Guthrie Theater, Victory Gardens Theater, Jungle Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Ars Nova, Balcony Theatre, and Open Eye Figure Theater. In the U.K. she has worked at the Bristol Old Vic, Redgrave Theatre, Wardrobe Theatre, and White Bear Theatre. In 2013 Jessica spent the winter in Taganrog, Russia co-directing Romeo And Juliet, which also toured in Italy, and creating and directing a studio piece based on the experiences of the international acting company entitled … Or What I Found Across The Border.

Credits

DIRECTOR, MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, Post-Mortem, Assembly Festival Edinburgh, 3 Weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, Leave A Message, Gilded Balloon Edinburgh, 4 Weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, Deluge, Southwark Playhouse Tiny Studio, 1 Night, 2019
PRODUCER, Scripts for Supper Wind in the Willows, London City Farms Tour, 4 weeks, 2019
DIRECTOR, MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, Post-Mortem, The Space, 1 Week, 2019
DIRECTOR, Leave A Message, Vaults Festival, 1 Week, 2019
PRODUCER, Scripts for Supper Jekyll and Hyde, Tab Center, 4 Weeks, 2018
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, bad news, Guthrie Theater, 1 Week, 2018
DIRECTOR, Crave, The Wardrobe Theatre, 2017
DIRECTOR, The Testament of Mary, Open Eye Figure Theatre, 2017

Training

MA Drama Directing Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
BA Theatre Concentration Directing, Minor Asian Humanities, and Film, UCLA