Jesse Rasmussen (she/her/hers) is a writer and director from Australia, now based on the North Shore in Massachusetts. Jesse's writing for theater and opera has been featured on stages from the Wallis Annenberg Center and the Getty Villa in LA, PSNY (NYC) to the Malthouse Theater in Melbourne, Australia. Jesse's prose and poetry circles themes of grief, landscape, music and memory. Jesse will receive her MFA in Nature Writing from Western Colorado University in summer 2025, and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama (Directing). She has directed plays by Jeremy O.Harris, Tori Sampson and Sarah Mantell at Ars Nova, PSNY, the Yale School of Drama and Yale Rep.
Current and upcoming:
New musical premiere at Spooky Action Theater, D.C (book)
Feature film project Syrena, supported by the Midnight Oil Collective/Tsai Center for Innovation at Yale, in development summer 2025 (co-writer/director)