Jessica Abrams
Actress / Standup Comic / Writer
JESSICA ABRAMS
Writer
616 ¼ N Plymouth Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90004
(323) 841-5377
TELEVISION WRITING:
DESIRE: WATCH OVER ME Freelance (Multiples) FOX/MyNetwork TV 2007
AMAZING VACATION HOMES Freelance (Multiples) Travel Channel 2006
THE ULTIMATE ZOO Freelance (Multiples) Animal Planet 2005
ADOPTION TALES Freelance (Multiples) Animal Planet 2004
STREET TIME Script Coordinator Showtime 2001-2002
24 Script Coordinator Fox 2000-2001
PROFILER Episode/Writers Asst. NBC 1999-2000
SPIN CITY Writers Asst. NBC 1997
PILOTS/PITCHES
THE ACCIDENTAL PROPHET (drama)
Dual franchise family and legal drama pitched with producer Barbara Wall, formerly of Lionsgate Entertainment/If-come deal with New Regency Television
PLAYWRITING
IF I LOOK THIS GOOD, WHY DO I FEEL LIKE SH*T? (solo show)
Premiered at the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival, recipient of Encore Award
HAPPY RETURNS (short play/part of longer play, THE FIRST TO KNOW)
Premiered January 2015 as part of Little Black Dress Ink’s National Festival of New Plays, Prescott, AZ
2013 Heideman Award finalist
Published in ONSTAGE Collection
EASTER IN TEL AVIV (full-length)
2013 Ebell Prize Finalist
MELISSA (short play/part of longer play, THE FIRST TO KNOW)
Premiered May 2012 in the New American Theatre Short Play Festival, Los Angeles, CA
THE FIRST TO KNOW (full-length)
2018 SkyPilot Runway Reading
THE LAUGHING COW (full-length)
Premiered April 2012 at Los Angeles’ Meta Theatre on Melrose (produced by New Leaf Endeavors)
Published in Off the Wall Plays (www.offthewallplays.com)
WEB
KNOCKING ON DOORS (www.knocking-on-doors.com)
2013-2014. Co-created, co-directed (2 out of 9 episodes/sole directing credit on 4 episodes), produced and star in a web series based on my day job as a field interviewer for a social science research company.
2017 Winner of Indiefest Award of Recognition
2017 International Independent Film Awards, Bronze
2017 Southern Shorts – writing, editing, acting
BLOGGING/ARTICLES
JessicaAbrams.com Blogger 2017 – present
FeminineCollective.com Contributor 2015 – 2018
ExploreDance.com Contributor 2014 – 2019
Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative Blogger 2012 – 2014
GHOST WRITING
Ghost-wrote “ENOUGHNESS: THE SIMPLE TRUTH TO EMBRACING YOU”,
by Alison Robertson 2016 – 2017
TEACHING/COACHING
Led writing workshop, Downtown Women’s Center 2015
EDUCATION/TRAINING
Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive
Barnard College of Columbia University, BA French Literature