Position: Assistant Professor
Department: College of Arts, Education, and Humanities
Phone: 610-282-1100, x1629
Office: 125 Labuda Center
Jessica Bedford is a Philadelphia based actor, director, dramaturg, playwright and teacher. She has been seen onstage at McCarter Theatre, Walnut Street Theater, Lantern Theatre Co, Montgomery Theatre, Act II Playhouse, Tiny Dynamite, Theatre Horizon, People's Light, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and Theatre Co., the Arden, and other stages in the Philadelphia area.
Recent directing credits include DeSales University, Delaware Shakespeare, the Philadelphia Artists' Collective, Act II Playhouse, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Inis Nua and the McCarter. As a writer, her works have been produced nationally and in the UK. She is co-author of the satirical play The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged, available from Concord Theatricals.
Jessica has taught at Villanova University, Temple University, Montgomery County Community College, DeSales University and University of the Arts.
Education: DeSales University, B.A. Villanova University, M.A. Queens University of Charlotte, M.F.A.