Jessica Carmona
Biography
Jessica is an Award Winning Actress, Playwright, Lyricist/Librettist and Producer of Afro- Puerto Rican descent. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her B.F.A in Acting.
She is currently a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writers Workshop.
She is Co-Librettist and Co-Lyricist on the new musical Olivia O The Musical, which was recently selected as a NAMT Recommended Musical.
She is currently developing her original musical The Boogie Down Gospel, a re-imagining of the Gospel of Matthew as told through the lens of the Afro-Latino Community of the South Bronx in the 1990’s.
She has worked for 4 consecutive years with Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, creating original children’s musicals each summer.
As an Actress, she appeared on CBS ‘s FBI Most Wanted across from Dylan McDermott , as well as “NBC New Amsterdam” with Ryan Eggold. She starred as Rosie in the new play “Pecking Order” by Robin Rice, and as Zoe in “Black Mexican” by Rachel Lynette. She appeared as Odessa/Haikumom in “Water by the Spoonful” at the Red Monkey Theatre Group, Antonio in “Twelfth Night” at the Red Monkey Theater Group, Samana in Platanos and Collard Greens, and Maddie in Nickeled and Dimed at Blackfriars Theater. She has also worked with Pregones/PRTT and R.Evolucion Latina on a production of The Tempest directed by Luis Salgado.
Her indie film, “Millie and the Lords” won her the Best Film and Best Actress Award at The People’s Film Festival and the Viva Latino Film Festival as well as an Award for Film Excellence from the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival. It was also featured at the Georgia Latino Film Festival, Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, Rochester Latino Film Festival and was most recently on HBO Latino and COMCAST.
She is dedicated to using her passion for theatre to contribute to creating a more just and equal society where all voices and all peoples are represented.
She is represented by Bonafide and Emerging Artists, LLC as well as Bramante Artists.