Jessica Cerullo | biography

Biography

Jessica Cerullo lives in New York where she works as a performer, writer and teacher. She serves on the board and as Managing Director for MICHA, the Michael Chekhov Association.

As a writer and performer her recent original works are Five Maries and Miracle Tomato. The first is based on the life and imaginings of Mary Queen of Scots and the second on the life of Angelina, the waitress at the family pizzeria. Miracle Tomato premiered in May 2007 at P.S. 122 in New York City as part of the soloNOVA Festival and will continue to tour in the United States in 2008. Her work has been part of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange First Weekend Series and she has been the artist in residence at the Tin Shop in Breckenridge, Colorado's Arts District.

Jessica is a former member of the Stanislavsky Theater Studio in Washington, DC and the Flock Theater in New London, Connecticut. She 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.

As a teacher Jessica has taught for the Michael Chekhov Association’s International Workshop and Festival, the Stanislavsky Theater Studio, The London Academy of Theatre, 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.

Jessica earned her BA in Communications from Hofstra University and her MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University; a school that cultivates the integration of body, mind and spirit in the creation and execution of theatrical performance. 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.