JESSICA BASHLINE
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Current Passion:
ANN AND ME: or The Big Bad Abortion Play
A one-woman show written and performed by Jessica Bashline
​currently touring to venues across the US & Internationally: read a review here

March 2023, United Solo Festival NYC: Winner Best Storytelling, Director Margaret Ledford
October 2022, Workshop and Reading, Syracuse Stage Cold Reads Festival, Director Margaret Ledford
​August 2022, Workshop Development & Performance, American Theater Northwest (Bellingham WA)
Director and Dramaturg: Evan Mueller
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Director :
Sewing Bears: A Play With Pockets, Jonathan Alexandratos
July 2024, Parity Productions, NYC

The Wolves, Sarah DeLappe
March 2024, University of Miami, Jerry Herman Ring Theater

The Rover, Aphra Behn
March 2023, University of Miami, Jerry Herman Ring Theater
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Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
March 2022, University of Miami, outdoor staging

What Kind of Woman, Abbe Tannenbaum
July 2021, Workshop Performance, American Theater Northwest (Bellingham WA)
​September 2020, Development & Workshop Reading- Digital (Covid)


Pride and Prejudice: The Musical, Samantha Caps & Annie Dillon
June 2020, SheNYCArts Festival- Digital (Covid)

Gypsy, Arthur Laurents, Jules Styne and Stephen Sondheim
September 2019, NYU Steinhardt Mainstage/Loewe Theater

Arcadia, Tom Stoppard
May 2019, NSKI Hoyskole Oslo Norway

The Wolves, Sarah DeLappe
August 2019, Frenchwoods Festival of the Performing Arts

1776, Sherman Edwards & Peter Stone
July 2019, All Female Reworking, Frenchwoods Festival of the Performing Arts

Words Cannot Describe This, Jonathan Alexandratos
November 2018, Development Mission to (dit)Mars

Make Me A Song,  William Finn
October 2018, NYU
 Steinhardt School of Vocal Performance

We See What Happen: An Immigration Play, Jonathan Alexandratos
Developmental Workshop, 2018 Strange Sun Theater Greenhouse Winner

Wickedest Woman, Written and Directed by Jessica Bashline
Developmental Workshop, Drama League January & May 2018


Loving Repeating,  Frank Galati, Stephen Flaherty, Gertrude Stein
September 2017, NYU
Steinhardt School of Vocal Performance
​NYC Premiere: Read about our production on MTI's website


Brighton Beach Memoirs,  Neil Simon
August 2017, Frenchwoods Festival of the Performing Arts


Click,  Jacqueline Goldfinger
June 2017, Reading: Drama League First Draft residency


Occasion for Sin,  Katherine Fredericks and Oriente Lopez
June 2017, Planet Connections Festival


Life of the Party, Larry O'Keefe & Nell Benjamin
March 2017, NYU
Steinhardt School of Vocal Performance

5 week development workshop leading to performance of this new Larry O'Keefe, Nell Benjamin musical.

Futurama, Samantha Charlip
January 2017, reading at Theater for a New City

A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare
September 2016, NYU Steinhardt School of Vocal Performance

Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
September 2015, NYU
Steinhardt School of Vocal Performance

Closer Than You Think Book, Lyrics and Music by Brett Kristofferson
June 2015

Developmental/Workshop and continual work on new musical about a family trying to find their way back to each other.
Read reviews of Closer Than You Think

The Impracticality of Modern Day Mastodons,  Rachel Teagle
March & October 2015

Ongoing development on this piece about a world in which we all become our eight year old dream.
 
The Drowning Girls, Beth Graham, Daniela Vlaskalic & Charlie Tomlinson

Nominated for NY Innovative Theater Award for Best Revival of a Play 2013
"The Drowning Girls will take your breath away." -Backstage
"3 1/2 stars" "Beautifully staged by Jessica Bashline". -NY Post



Playwright:
Wickedest Woman
Tells the story of Ann Lohman, "Female doctor" in New York City in the 19th Century.  Her skill as an entrepreneur and abortionist earned Ann the title, Wickedest Woman in New York.


January 2019: 17 performance run at WP Theater NYC, produced by Strange Sun Theater, Director: Melissa Crespo
Reading January & May 2018 at Drama League NYC
Reading B-Side salon Series May 2017
Finalist Scrap Mettle Emerging Playwrights Program: Development January 2017
Winner, Strange Sun Theater Greenhouse Reading Series- Reading March 2015

Publication by Next Stage Press 

PRESS FOR WICKEDEST WOMAN

"Fierce and Necessary"
TIMES SQUARE CHRONICLE

“Engrossing…strong performances…O'Hara-Baker is superb. Her complex, deeply human, and dignified portrayal of Ann is enthralling right through its moving conclusion…a play that reminds us why actions such as these [women's] marches continue to be necessary.”
CULTURE CATCH


"Wickedest Woman is a play worth braving the cold weather for..."
MANHATTAN WITH A TWIST

"Brilliantly written..."
THEATER SCENE

Garden of Memories

Garden of Memories explores the idea of place as repository for memory, the fallibility of parents and children; forgiveness and letting go.

Reading February 27th 2016 at LaMama
Reading HRC Theater Hudson NY, March 2017

Available on New Play Exchange

Tunnel
Tunnel is one woman's journey through a split second of discovery.  A ten minute play that explores our relationship to our own beauty and power as seen through the eyes of our children.

Produced by Hubbard Hall, 2016 Winter Carnival of New Work
Available on New Play Exchange

Publications:
Wickedest Woman

Next Stage Press 2021
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Contemporary Monologues for Twenty-Somethings
Contemporary Scenes for Twenty-Somethings

Compilation Editor for these two best selling publications for Hal Leonard/Applause
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jessbashline(at)gmail.com
  • home
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