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Jessica Cerullo is a Seattle based performer, writer and teacher. She serves on the board and as Managing Director for MICHA, the Michael Chekhov Association and is a resident artist at Studio Current for the 2010-201 season.

Jessica’s recent original work Miracle Tomato premiered at P.S. 122 in New York City as part of the soloNOVA Festival and continues to tour in the United States. Her work has been part of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange First Weekend Series and has been supported by the town of Breckenridge, Colorado where she has been 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 the editor of Michael Chekhov, Critical Issues, Reflections, Dreams, a book documenting the work of the Michael Chekhov Association and its members.

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. In 2009-2010 she served as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater at Whitman College.

Jessica earned a BA in Communications from Hofstra University and an 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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