Jessica is a graduate of NYU's Dramatic Writing Program and The Juilliard School, and has become a very hot screenwriter over the past 3 years having written for Imagine, Peter Berg, Ellen Page, Focus Features, Kathy Kennedy, and Denise DiNovi among others. Her script ABSENT HEARTS landed her on Variety's 10 Writers to Watch List. She wrote HEART OF A SOLDIER with Taylor Lautner attached to star and Josh Schwartz producing for Universal. Her pilot The Prince of Motor City was produced for ABC in 2008 starring Aidan Quinn, Andie Macdowell, Piper Perabo and Morris Chestnut. She was developing a pilot at CBS with Matt Tolmach producing called SLEEPERS. She is also writing a feature film adaptation of the Lauren Oliver novel DELIRIUM for Fox, as well as an adaptation of GOODBYE FOR NOW aka DEADMAIL written by Laurie Frankel for Lionsgate/Summit with Temple Hill producing, and completed her directorial debut REFUGE, which she adapted from one of her plays. She was working as a staff writer on NBC's NOTORIOUS.
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