Jessica is a screenwriter and playwright who also writes fiction.
In 2023, she WON the prestigious Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition; in 2024 she was named a SEMIFINALIST in that same competition. She has also been recognized as a fiction finalist at the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, been awarded a Core Residency at Millay Arts, and named a finalist for the Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writer’s Guild Residency. She is an incoming MFA Candidate in Creative Writing (Fiction) at Bennington College, Class of 2027.
Selected works:
Good evening, Marshall (good Evening, geraldine)
Short Screenplay
Geraldine and Marshall need everything to be perfect and they work very, very hard to keep it that way, thank you very much. When one of them questions the rigid rules of their game, their literal reset button stops working and they are forced to confront reality or risk losing each other forever.
WINNER 2023 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
FINALIST 2024 Sedona International Film Festival Screenplay Competition
SEMIFINALIST 2024 Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition
SEMIFINALIST 2024 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
HONOURABLE MENTION 2024 Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Competition
routine procedure
Short Screenplay
A woman picks her disoriented boyfriend up from the doctor after a routine procedure and they work their way home on the subway - but all is not as it seems.
SEMIFINALIST 2024 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
The murder of sherlock holmes: A detective collective mystery
Stage Play by Jessica Mosher and Keith Rubin
Sherlock Holmes has been murdered! But by whom? A team of elite investigators from literature and pop culture descend on the scene to help local policeman Bert crack the case. Will the detectives be able to set aside their personal differences in time to find the killer? Will the 8 actors, who play all the parts, make their quick changes? Find out in this fast-paced, comedic mystery for the stage.
STAND BY
Stage Play by Jessica Mosher
A man is accused of an unforgivable thing, but this play is not about him. It is about Astrid, his wife, and Kathleen, his mother, as they negotiate the collapse of the world they thought they knew. TW: Sexual Assault
the a train anthology
Collaborative Stage Play by Various Artists
Short scenes by Jessica and five other writers are placed next to and in conversation with each other to paint a picture of what humanity looks like on the “A” train in New York City. Coming to NYC this fall with Divine Riot.