Orpheus pictures

Jessica is a director, writer and producer with a passion for stories that tap into hidden histories, thrilling investigations, world literature, science, existential angst and dysfunctional relationships. She is drawn to complicated, flawed individuals wrestling with matters of the heart and their place in society and the universe. 

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Writer and director credits include: Alchemy of the Word (2025), a drama short about the damned poets, Rimbaud and Verlaine; 250 Years of Jane Austen  (2025), a documentary about Austen's legacy for the Jane Austen Society UK; Love is a Hand Grenade (2021), which played at BFI Flare, Flickers' Rhode Island's Roving Eye, Bolton and Show Me Shorts; Sadeh (2021), a documentary short that screened at the UK Jewish Film Festival, Iris Prize, AmDocs and Cinequest; and an episode of the cybercrime docuseries, Hacker:Hunter (2021); She has worked in immersive and theatre including writing and directing the immersive murder mystery, Wedded to Murder (2024); and translating/directing The Kahena: Berber Queen (2022) as part of Global Jewish Voices at the Bush Theatre.  Jessica  produced the BIFA-longlisted feature, Love Type D (2019), and is an Associate Producer on the upcoming feature, Brighton Stories (2025).

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Jessica has a number of TV, feature and theatre projects in development. Her TV pilot for Barren, a female-led HETV thriller series set in a fertility clinic is in development with a BAFTA-winning production company. The pilot script was selected for the WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriters’ Lab 2025, shortlisted for TIFF’s Sloan Science on Screen Breakthroughs programme 2025. and is the recipient of a Society of Authors' Authors’ Foundation grant. Jessica has been selected for the Criterion New Writing scheme 2026 with her new theatre project, Mademoiselle Manet, exploring Manet and Morisot's story of love and art. Jessica’s pilot script for her TV series, The Real Margot, was shortlisted for the Sky Arts RSL Writers Award 2021. As a director, she is developing a genre-bending feature, Vamped, with writer Kate Thorman, which was a finalist for the UK Next Wave Genre Lab 2024. Her investigative documentary, The Ridge, is in funded development with EMMY-winning Submarine Entertainment, and her docu-drama, Bambi, ​telling the origin story of the world's most famous deer, received a development grant from the prestigious Claims Conference Emerging Filmmaker Fund 2025. ​​​​

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In 2016, Jessica was awarded the Cointreau Creative Crew Grant for creative entrepreneurs and named Marie Claire's 'Wonder Woman' of the month, which was interpreted as tacit permission to embrace her love of French literature and art. Her international upbringing and heritage continues to inspire her work and practice.