My name is Jessica, and I'm a dancer, writer, and choreographer. My life in New York City began when I was 20 with a summer at Broadway Dance Center. After interning at The Late Show with David Letterman, my varied career backstage and onstage has taken me from assisting Eartha Kitt backstage (coolest girl day ever: having brunch, getting our nails done, and going shoe shopping with this magnificent woman) to having dinner backstage at Lincoln Center with Rhoda and Mrs. Cunningham to getting career advice backstage from Kathleen Chalfant (don't get stuck stage managing and wake up one day saying, "I wish I had...") to spending three months on a plane with Liam Neeson to dancing in and choreographing music videos, performing onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House, and many more adventures on stage, back stage, and in front of and behind the camera. In addition to dancing and stage managing for years, I also wrote and directed the short play Pickup for the Midtown International Theatre Festival Short Play Lab, recently wrote my first novel, and am currently working on my second.
In the fall of 2019, I turned a page and began life in west Michigan. I couldn't imagine someplace more different from New York City. My goal is to always make my life as full and colorful as possible. My ambition hasn't waned just because I moved, and neither has my determination to fill my life to the brim. This blog is about how I do that in a city whose population size is 2.4% that of New York City. And where the sunsets are beautiful.
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