Jessica O'Hara-Baker is a California-born, New York-based actor and director. Recent and upcoming work includes Wickedest Woman (WP Theater); The Wanderers (The Lark); Usual Girls, you do not look (Signature Theatre/Columbia MFA Showcase); The How and the Why, Sister Play, Rapture Blister Burn (Dreamcatcher Rep); The Red Room, Trapper (The Shelter); and the upcoming film F-Word (Twenty Five Eight Studios). Recent directing and development work with Second Stage, EST, NYU Tisch, Fresh Ground Pepper, The Farm Theater, NY Fringe, The Flea. She is co-founder of the filmmaking collective Burn it Down.
2018 IndieFest Women Filmmaker Award
Farm Theater 2017 Directing Fellow
Art House Productions has announced casting for the Virtual INKubator New Play Festival starting tonight, Monday, May 3 through Wednesday, May 19 online via Zoom.
Theater with a View, the highly-acclaimed professional theatre company located in the Valley Forge region of Pennsylvania, has returned with a production that is a perfect fit for the intimate outdoor home of the company. Anna Moench's BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA is currently playing at the Pottstown venue now through September 14, 2019. Directed by Jessica O'Hara-Baker, the production features Will W. Warren and Lena Hudson.
The Tank will present their third annual Lady Fest, featuring new work by some of the most exciting lady-identified artists out there, in celebration of womxnhood and the female voice, in all its glory.
Theater with a View, the highly-acclaimed professional theatre company located in the Valley Forge region of Pennsylvania, returns this September with a production that is a perfect fit for the intimate outdoor home of the company. Anna Moench's BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA will play at the Pottstown venue from September 4 through September 14, 2019. Press are invited to the September 5 performance at 7PM.
Strange Sun Theater will present Jessica Bashline's new play, WICKEDEST WOMAN, at the WP Theater on the Upper West Side, January 19 - February 2. The World Premiere is directed by Melissa Crespo with Opening Night slated for January 19. The limited run features a gender bending cast of 7 actors who have numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway credits.
Strange Sun Theater will present Jessica Bashline's new play, WICKEDEST WOMAN, at the WP Theater on the Upper West Side, January 19 - February 2. The World Premiere is directed by Melissa Crespo with Opening Night slated for January 19. The limited run features a gender bending cast of 7 actors who have numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway credits.
Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional Theatre in Residence at the Oakes Center in Summit, will present a bonus Meet the Artist new play reading today, August 15 at 7:00 pm at the Oakes Center.
Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional Theatre in Residence at the Oakes Center in Summit, will present a bonus Meet the Artist new play reading on Wednesday, August 15 at 7:00 pm at the Oakes Center.
Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional theatre in residence at Oakes Center in Summit, is producing the World Premiere of Continuing the Conversation: An Evening of Short Plays Inspired by Current Events. The plays, by writers Suzanne Bradbeer, Richard Dresser, Steve Harper, Dania Ramos, Lia Romeo and David Lee White, all deal with themes that are in the public consciousness right now. Dreamcatcher has taken what was a one-night event last season and given it a place on the mainstage this spring. Continuing the Conversation runs April 26 - May 13, 2018.
Good Works Productions announces the cast and director for a staged reading of CHOSEN CHILD, part of Emerging Artist Theater's New Works Series. Mothers and memories combine to change the fate of a schizophrenic man at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, who's waiting for a sister he hardly knows, to fulfill an agreement that was never made. This drama with comedy is about adoption, obligation, and the ties that may, or may not bind.
Stable Cable Lab Co. and New Light Theater Project would like you to meet HAL & BEE, and BroadwayWorld has the exclusive!
4thU Artivists, a NYC-based creative nonprofit, announces their Fall 2017 performance, Writing on the Wall, which will raise funding and awareness to help end violence against women and girls. To date, they have raised over $110,000 for numerous organizations.
4thU Artivists, a NYC-based creative nonprofit, announces their Fall 2017 performance, Writing on the Wall, which will raise funding and awareness to help end violence against women and girls. To date, they have raised over $110,000 for numerous organizations.
4thU Artivists, a NYC-based creative nonprofit, announces their Fall 2017 performance, Writing on the Wall, which will raise funding and awareness to help end violence against women and girls. To date, they have raised over $110,000 for numerous organizations.
The Farm Theater will premiere Alex Raid's The Floor is Lava, directed by Jessica O'Hara Baker (Directing Fellow at The Farm Theater), at the 9th Annual Planet Connections Theatre Festivity.
The Farm Theater announces their 2017 season, which will include the 3rd Annual College Collaboration Project with playwright Morgan McGuire, a co-production with the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, new installments of the popular bi-monthly Bullpen Sessions, and a new monthly Directors Roundtable series.
Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional theatre in residence at Oakes Center in Summit, is producing Sarah Treem's drama The How and the Why. This intricate and thought-provoking play had its premiere at the McCarter Theatre in 2011. "The How and the Why" runs September 22 - October 9, 2016, with talkbacks following the September 25 and October 2 matinees.
Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional Theatre in Residence at the Oakes Center in Summit, will hold its Summer Theatre Program: Dreamcatcher Junior for students aged 10 to 17 from July 11 through July 29, 2016. Dreamcatcher's Summer Theatre Conservatory is a three-week theatre experience. Guided by professional actor and director Jessica O'Hara-Baker, students build skills and study with theatre artists in a variety of subjects while creating and performing their own play. The program will be held Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 pm (with a special performance July 29 at 7:00 pm) at Dreamcatcher's home at the Oakes Center, 120 Morris Avenue in Summit.
Dreamcatcher Repertory Theatre, professional theatre in residence at Oakes Center in Summit, is producing the New Jersey premiere of John Kolvenbach's dramatic comedy "Sister Play." This hilarious and heartfelt story of the connection between two sisters had its bi-coastal premiere in California and Massachusetts in 2015. "Sister Play" runs February 18 - March 6, 2016, with talkbacks following the February 21 and 28 matinees.
DREAMCATCHER REPERTORY THEATRE, professional Theatre in Residence at Oakes Center in Summit, presents its spring evening of improv comedy with its resident troupe, MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER, tonight, May 9. This unpredictable evening is an affordable, enjoyable evening that is packed with laughs from start to finish.
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