Jessie Field
Jessie Field (she/her) is an award-winning queer NYC playwright, lyricist, and director. Jessie’s short play, Too Much Lesbian Drama: One Star won the 47th Annual Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival and was published in collection in 2023. Jessie and collaborator James Martinez Salem were commissioned to adapt James Brandon's novel, Ziggy, Stardust and Me (Workshopped at SDSU in 2022 and at Diversionary Theatre in 2024, produced in the Prebys Theatre in 2023). Additionally, Jessie has written book and/or lyrics for numerous musicals including Charlotte Lucas is 27 and Not Dead (2024 NAMT Finalist & Festival Committee Recommendation, 2023 NAMT Finalist, 2024 Kleban Prize Finalist for Libretto, WINNER: 2022 Musicals Now Competition, 2022 O’Neill NMTC Semi-Finalist, 2022 SDSU Semi-Finalist), Fat Girl Starving (Songs performed at 54 Below w/ Actors Therapy and at the New Musicals Mixtape Concert; developed at the Theatre Now NY Lab and the 2023 Julia de Burgos Cohort), Hard Tack (2023 Catwalk Writer’s Retreat Recipient), La Maupin (Winner: 2018 International MUT Competition, Winner: Audience Favorite – 2017 Fresh Fruit Festival) and Rachel (2018 JDT Lab Selection, Winner: Outstanding Musical – 2015 Fresh Fruit Festival, 2013 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Best Original Play). Jessie has also written TYA play To The West, which was a finalist in the Growing Stage’s New Play Reading Festival and the school play at Randolph High. Jessie is a proud member of Theatre Now New York’s Musical Writer’s Lab. She earned her MFA at NYU Tisch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, and her BA at Brandeis University with high honors in Theatre Arts.