Jesse Rasmussen (she/her/hers) is a writer, director and lyricist from Australia, currently based in Brooklyn and Maine. Jesse received her MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama and has directed works by Jeremy O.Harris, Tori Sampson and Sarah Mantell at Ars Nova, PSNY, the Yale School of Drama and Yale Rep. Jesse is a founding member of LA based avant-garde opera company Four Larks and has collaborated with the company on numerous projects as writer, librettist and lyricist on operatic works staged at the Getty Villa, The Wallis Annenberg Center and The Malthouse Theatre (Australia). Current projects include: Medea In Exile, a contemporary adaptation of Medea by Australian playwright Tom Holloway and Dr. Emma Cole, with music director Lukas Papenfusscline, and a baroque pop cabaret based on the fiction of Anais Nin (Nin Descending a Staircase) with composer/co-creator Ellen Warkentine. Jesse is also a Co-Director & Co-writer for feature film project Syrena, supported by the Midnight Oil Collective/Tsai Center for Innovation at Yale.