Jessica Frances Dukes

Center Stage: Beneatha’s Place, Clybourne Park (Best Actress for both). Off-Broadway—Playwrights Horizons: Bootycandy (Obie Award). Regional—Arena Stage: King Hedley II, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Arden Theatre: Stick Fly; Geva Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun, The Piano Lesson; Indiana Repertory: The Piano Lesson; Cleveland Playhouse: Trip to Bountiful; Woolly Mammoth Theatre (company member): Bootycandy, The Vibrator Play, Full Circle, Eclipsed, Fever/ Dream, Antebellum (Helen Hayes ens/nom), Starving; Folger Theatre: The Conference of The Birds; Olney Theatre: The Piano Lesson; Studio Theatre: Passing Strange, Caroline, or Change; Round House Theatre: Trip to Bountiful and Permanent Collection; Ford’s Theatre: Jitney; Tribute Productions: Spunk (Helen Hayes Best Actress nom); Theater Alliance: The Bluest Eye, Insurrection: Holding History (Helen Hayes ens/nom) and more. TV—The Good Wife (CBS); A Raisin in the Sun Revisited (PBS); NBC Showcase Alumni (2015). Education—MFA from Catholic University.

Previous DPT Work

Detroit ‘67 — Season One