Jesse Rasmussen (she/her/hers) is a writer, director and teacher 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 writing and theater explores themes of grief, music, myth, memory and the natural world. Jesse has an MFA in Nature Writing/Poetry from Western Colorado University, and 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. She currently collaborates with Elizabeth Dinkova (Spooky Action Theater) as writer/dramaturg, and leiken as co-artistic director of dogmouth.
