Jessica Anderson

Jessica is originally from Oakville, Ontario. She received the 2012 RBC Tarragon Emerging Playwrights Award for her play The Gods and Calvin Brewer. Her first play My Purple Wig was short-listed for the RBC Tarragon Under Thirty Award, the Herman Voaden Award and received Special Merit Award in TheatreBC’s National Playwriting Contest. My Purple Wig premiered Off-Broadway in 2013. Her third play, A Different Kind of Job, premiered as part of Theatre Aquarius’ TA2 Studio Series in 2015. A Different Kind of Job was remounted by Bad Timing Productions in 2018. Her short plays have been produced at festivals in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Hamilton, Brantford and Sydney, Australia. Jessica was the OAC playwright-in-residence for Tottering Biped Theatre for 2016/17. She participated the 2014 Stratford Playwright’s Retreat, was an inaugural member of the 1000 Islands playwrights’ unit and was a member of the Theatre Aquarius Playwright’s Unit from 2014-2018.