Jessica
Edwards

Theatre director

Jessica Edwards is a theatre director and dramaturg. She chiefly directs new writing, and regularly develops ideas from an early seed with writers, through to first production. Her work often explores the queer and female experience. It is iconoclastic, subversive, outrageous and fun.

Most recently, Jessica has directed the award-winning new musical SPARKS at Vault Festival 2018, and the five star DENIM WORLD TOUR at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017. She has been associate to Jamie Lloyd on THE MAIDS and DOCTOR FAUSTUS and Rupert Goold on KING CHARLES III. Jessica has also assisted James McDonald and Claire Lizzimore. She has twice been a finalist for the JMK award.

Jessica also works internationally, directing Hedi Mohr's NACKTSAENGERIN at the BKA Theatre in Berlin in May 2018. She is currently writing her first screenplay.

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Theatre

Director 

Hotter
Writer Ell Potter and Mary Higgins
Soho Theatre, Underbelly
Revolutions
Writer Isley Lynn
Starring
  • Laura Hanna
    •
    Research and development at The Bush
    Sparks
    Producer Michelle Barnette Productions & Flipping the Bird
    Writer Jessica Butcher
    Vault Festival, HighTide, Pleasance Edinburgh
    NACKTSÄNGERIN - The Naked Singer
    Producer Thomas Hermanns
    Writer Hedi Mohr
    BKA Theater Berlin
    The National (Reading)
    Writer Nina Segal
    New Diorama Theatre
    Heretic Voices, Women Caught Unaware
    Producer Heretic Productions
    Writer Annie Fox
    Arcola Theatre
    Denim: World Tour
    Producer Soho Theatre & United Agents
    Edinburgh Festival & Soho Theatre
    Punts
    Producer Kuleshov
    Writer Sarah Page
    Theatre 503
    Berlin Non Stop
    Producer Collaborative Artists
    Workshop
    The Gulf
    Writer Daniel Andersen
    Starring
  • Mandana Jones
    •
    In development with the Old Vic lab
    Torch
    Producer Flipping the Bird
    Writer Phoebe Eclair-Powell
    Starring
  • Jess Mabel Jones
    •
    Latitude Festival, New Diorama Theatre & Underbelly, Edinburgh
    Queering Marlowe
    Producer Jamie Lloyd Company
    Writer Christopher Marlowe
    Starring
  • Sharon D. Clarke
  • Emily Taaffe
    •
    Duke of York's Theatre
    Splendid's
    Producer Jamie Lloyd Company
    Writer Jean Genet
    Starring
  • Bertie Carvel
  • Fisayo Akinade
  • Jonathan Broadbent
  • Marc Wootton
    •
    Trafalgar Studios
    Haters Make You Famous
    Writer Devised
    Almeida
    Late Mr Shakespeare
    Writer Jonathan Broadbent
    RSC
    The Cherry Orchard
    Writer Anton Chekhov
    Rose Bruford College
    White Hot and Weak
    Producer Kaya Stanley-Money
    Writer Daniel Andersen
    Old Vic
    The Itinerant Music Hall
    Producer Flipping the Bird
    Starring
  • James Rowland
  • Pete Ashmore
  • Kate Adams
    •
    Lyric Hammersmith, Watford Palace Theatre, GDIF & Latitude
    Jekyll & Hyde
    Producer Flipping the Bird
    Writer Jonathan Holloway
    Starring
  • Cristina Catalina
  • Michael Edwards
  • Leo Wan
  • Elliott Rennie
  • Joel Phillimore
    •
    Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh & Southwark Playhouse
    Chicken Skin
    Shortlisted: Les Enfants Terribles Award
    Producer Flipping the Bird
    Starring
  • Joel Phillimore
  • Martha Ellis Leach
  • Peter Shenai
  • Phoebe Eclair-Powell
  • Oliver Mann
    •
    Holywell Brasserie
    Passengers
    Writer Kit Redstone
    Summerhall
    Machinal
    Writer Sophie Treadwell
    Arts Education Schools MA Acting

    Associate Director 

    Doctor Faustus
    Producer Jamie Lloyd Company
    Director Jamie Lloyd
    Writer Colin Teevan
    Starring
  • Kit Harington
  • Brian Gilligan
  • Craig Stein
  • Danielle Flett
  • Forbes Masson
    •
    Duke of York's Theatre
    The Maids
    Producer Jamie Lloyd Company
    Director Jamie Lloyd
    Writer Jean Genet, Benedict Andrews & Andrew Upton
    Starring
  • Zawe Ashton
  • Uzo Aduba
  • Laura Carmichael
    •
    Trafalgar Studios
    Bull
    Director Clare Lizzimore
    Writer Mike Bartlett
    Starring
  • Max Bennett
  • Susannah Fielding
  • Nigel Lindsay
  • Marc Wootton
    •
    Young Vic
    King Charles III
    Director Rupert Goold
    Writer Mike Bartlett
    Starring
  • Katie Brayben
  • Oliver Chris
  • Richard Goulding
  • Nyasha Hatendi
  • Tim Pigott-Smith
    •
    Wyndhams Theatre
    The Trench
    Producer Les Enfants Terribles
    Director James Seager & Oliver Lansley
    Writer Oliver Lansley
    Starring
  • Oliver Lansley
  • Conrad Sharp
  • Alfie Boyd
  • Tim Jackson
  • Alexander Wolfe
    •
    Pleasance, Edinburgh
    In the Next Room
    Director Laurence Boswell
    Writer Sarah Ruhl
    Starring
  • Katie Lightfoot
  • Paul Hickey
  • Lucy Robinson
  • Tom Hodgkins
  • Flora Montgomery
    •
    Theatre Royal Bath

    Assistant Director 

    Bakkhai
    Director James Macdonald
    Writer Anne Carson
    Starring
  • Ben Whishaw
  • Bertie Carvel
  • Amiera Darwish
  • Eugenia Georgieva
  • Kaisa Hammarlund
    •
    Almeida
    The Double
    Director Laurence Boswell
    Writer Fyodor Dostoevksy
    Starring
  • Simon Scardifield
  • Rob Edwards
  • Jane Leaney
  • Nicholas Karimi
  • Sean Murray
    •
    Theatre Royal Bath
    Red Light Winter
    Director Richard Beecham
    Writer Adam Rapp
    Starring
  • Keir Charles
  • Ilan Goodman
  • Sally Tatum
    •
    Theatre Royal Bath
    The Invisible Show
    Producer Red Shift
    Director Jonathan Holloway
    Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh