Jessica Bellamy is a playwright and theatre maker. She holds a Graduate Diploma of Dramatic Art in Playwriting (NIDA) and Bachelor of Arts (Hons)(UNSW), as well as a Graduate Certificate in Arts and Community Engagement (VCA).
She has been a Griffin Theatre Playwriting Australia Associate Playwright, Writer in Residence at Grey Projects, Singapore, MTC/PWA Dramaturgy Intern, and an Artistic Director for Outback Theatre for Young People’s The Echo in Our Walls. She has worked with Malthouse Theatre on Dybbuk, and participated in the Besen Emerging Writers Programme.
Jessica is the co-writer and performer of A is for Apple, Thick Beats for Good Girls for Checkpoint Theatre Singapore, co-writer of (After)Hero for Monash University Student Theatre with Jean Tong, writer and devisor for Convict Escapades for Sydney Living Museums, and she collaborated with Local Peoples on the Australian Open Kids Tennis Day. Jessica was the recipient of the atyp Foundation Commission, writing Compass (nominated for Sydney Theatre and AWGIE awards, published by Playlab Press), and is winner of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for Sprout (Playlab Press). Her play Shabbat Dinner has been produced by Tamarama Rock Surfers (Sydney) and Checkpoint Theatre (Singapore), and was presented by Griffin Theatre (Sydney).
Other plays include: Everything is Everywhere Lie to Your Face (Karnabal Festival, Manila); The Dreaming of the Bones (Yeats Day); TROJANS (PACT), Jack Kerouac’s Rules for Spontaneous Prose (Bondi Feast, Rock Surfers Theatre), Fight or Flight (Canberra Youth Theatre); devised work The Grief Parlour (Clockfire Theatre, True West); devised work LoveNOT (Sipat Lawin Ensemble, Manila); devised work Lovely Ugly (Griffin Theatre); A Fourth of Nature (ACT DET School Spectacular). She has worked with playwright Michele Lee as dramaturg on What If?…Hypothetical (Arts House), and work in development, How Do I Let You Die.
Jessica’s monologue ‘Little Love’ was adapted to a short film Bat Eyes (dir. Damien Power)(Top 10 finalist of YouTube Your Film competition, Venice Film Festival).
Jessica is also a teaching artist, and has run workshops, curriculum, or residencies for Express Media, Arts Centre Melbourne, Dreamhouse Theatre, atyp, NIDA, OTYP, Back to Back Theatre, Beyond the Square, Grey Projects and in many schools.
