Jessica B. Hill

Jessica B. Hill is currently starring as Viola in Stratford Festival's production of Twelfth Night as well as playing Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. Last year marked her debut as a playwright with two of her plays premiering in Winnipeg: Pandora with Prairie Theatre Exchange (a coproduction with Shakespeare in the Ruins) and The Dark Lady with Shakespeare in the Ruins, including a transfer to Saskatoon (a coproduction with Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan). The Dark Lady received its second production a few months later with Lunchbox Theatre in Calgary (a coproduction with The Shakespeare Company). The Dark Lady is also slated to have a staged reading with Red Bull Theatre in New York City this coming fall. Both Pandora and The Dark Lady were recently published and are available for purchase. Past Stratford Festival acting credits include All's Well That Ends Well, Richard III, Paradise Lost, Brontë: The World Without, Mother's Daughter, The Crucible and The Comedy of Errors. In film & tv, voice and mocap, past credits include Five Days at Memorial, The Boys, Kings of Napa, Hero: The Life and Times of Ulric Cross, Assassin's Creed: Origins, and a yet unannounced Ubisoft project. A visiting teacher at the National Theatre School, Jessica trained at Stratford Festival's Birmingham Conservatory, holds a BA in English Lit/Theatre Studies from McGill University and graduated from Dawson College's DOME theatre program. She's a recipient of the Bernard Amyot Teaching Award - National Theatre School, a twice recipient of Stratford Festival's Mary Savidge Award, and the first recipient of the Elsa Bolam Award in Montreal.