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Jessica Cerullo is a New York based performer, writer and teacher. She serves on the board and as Managing Director for MICHA, the Michael Chekhov Association.

As a writer and performer Jessica’s recent original work is Miracle Tomato a traveling story of love, bioengineering and the search for home. Miracle Tomato premiered in May 2007 at P.S. 122 in New York City as part of the soloNOVA Festival and continues to tour in the United States in 2008-2009. Jessica’s work has been part of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange First Weekend Series. Her work has also been supported by the town of Breckenridge, Colorado where she is welcomed as an artist in residence at the Tin Shop.

A former member of the Stanislavsky Theater Studio in Washington, DC and the Flock Theater in New London, Connecticut Jessica worked at the Mystic Seaport Museum where she was a member of the Mystic Seaport Players and performed and wrote a one woman piece entitled Women Keepers of the Light. She has created experimental works with The Actors’ Ensemble in New York and has performed in regional theaters such as the Folger Theater and Horizons Theater.

Jessica began working with MICHA the Michael Chekhov Association, when the Association was formed in 1999. Together with president, Joanna Merlin, she has worked to integrate Chekhov’s ideas about acting into International University curricula. Jessica appears in the NEA sponsored 6.5-hour series Master Classes in the Michael Chekhov Technique, which is currently distributed by Routledge Press. On behalf of MICHA, Jessica has spoken and taught at the Association for Theater in Higher Education Conference. She is currently working to launch MICHA’s first academic journal.

As a teacher, Jessica has taught for MICHA’s, International and Teacher Training Workshops, the Stanislavsky Theater Studio, The London Academy of Theatre, California State University’s Summer Arts, Prince Georges Community College, the Professional Performing Arts School in NYC and Naropa University. She has been a guest teacher at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, University of Colorado, Florida International University, Working Classroom in Albuquerque, the Actors Movement Studio, the Open Center in NYC, the Michael Chekhov Workshop in Belgium and at the Micro Theatre in Thesseloniki, Greece.

Jessica earned her BA in Communications from Hofstra University and her MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University. At Naropa she appeared in performances directed by Meredith Monk and her company the House, the SITI Company and Leigh Fondakowski of Tectonic Theatre. Jessica trained at the National Theater Institute in the USA, London and at the Moscow Art Theater in Russia. She earned her certification to teach Yoga from White Lotus in Santa Barbara, California in 2004.

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