
Jesse Bliss
Founder / Artistic & Executive Director

Bairton Brown
Grant Writer / Teaching Artist / Producer

Sigrid Gilmer
Teaching Artist
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Jesse Bliss
Founder / Artistic Director
Bliss is an international playwright, director, producer, actress, poet, journalist, and veteran arts educator. Her work has been showcased globally at prestigious venues such as the United Nations, Off-Broadway, the Edinburgh Festival, Traxx at Union Station, Lincoln Heights Jail, S.P.A.R.C at the Old Jail in Venice, The Last Bookstore, King Eddy Saloon, The Rosenthal Theater at
Inner-City Arts, Casa 0101 Theater, Theatre of Note, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Occidental College, UCSC, UCLA, and the California Institute of Integral Studies, among many others.
Bliss is the playwright behind influential works such as Roots and Wings, Diamonds, Tree of Fire, A Record of Light, Night Flower, and The Joy Ride, which have left a significant impact on both artists and audiences.
She is a featured artist in Kate Crash’s LA Women, Look What She Did, Yahoo News' Shine, and an Emmy-nominated segment on Spotlight Arts: Standup for the Arts.
Bliss has developed curriculum and consulted for organizations including Center Theatre Group, The Geffen Playhouse, the California Arts Council, and the Institute for the Future. She also spent a decade as the producer and host of Pacifica Radio's Think Outside the Cage.
Currently, she just completed her newest work, Realm of the River with an upcoming reading at LATC.
Her groundbreaking trilogy, written by BIPOC femme writers—Matriarch, Women at Work, and Luminous Streets (both a Downtown LA and upcoming Highland Park theatrical tour)—explores women’s survival and the pursuit of justice, and has
received widespread acclaim. Bliss is also a proud mother to her 12-year-old daughter.
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