Jessica Dickey is an award-winning playwright whose writing was hailed by the New York Times as having “freshness, economy, cheeky vulgarity, with a fine measure of poetic insight.” New Yorker magazine described her writing as “funny, smart, deep and sad.”

Jessie is most known for her play The Amish Project, which premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival, transferred to the Cherry Lane, officially premiered off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and has since been produced around the country. Other theatrical premieres have included Galileo’s Daughter (Remy Bumppo, Chicago), Nan and the Lower Body (TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA), The Convent (Rising Phoenix and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York City), The Rembrandt (Steppenwolf, Chicago), Charles Ives Take Me Home (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York City) and Row After Row (Women’s Project, New York City).

She’s won some prizes for her plays (including the Stavis Award, the Los Angeles Ovation Award, the Barrymore, the Helen Hayes, the CAPPIE) and she’s been nominated for a few more (including a finalist for the Weissberger Award, a couple Susan Blackburns and the Playwrights of New York Fellowship, among others). She was also listed by nytheatre.com as a playwright who should have been nominated for the Pulitzer, which wasn’t an award but really felt like one. She is a proud alum of the prestigious New Dramatists.

Jessie co-wrote a book with her sister Danielle Neff called Sistering: The Art of Holding Close and Letting Go (published by Pilgrim Press). In television and film, Jessie has written or developed for Apple TV, Netflix, ABC, Searchlight and Paramount TV.

Jessie currently divides her time between Brooklyn, Los Angeles and the south of France.