Jessica Phillippi

Jessica Phillippi is an actress, singer, playwright and director based in Glasgow and London. As an actress, she has worked on theater, film, voice-over and music projects in the UK, the US, Italy, Germany, Brazil and Uruguay. Recent directing work includes "Cosi e' (se vi pare)" and "La Mandragola", rehearsed and performed in Italian for the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde. She has also written two successful plays for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe ("The Translator's Dilemma" and "My Sister"), which subsequently toured to other festivals in Scotland and Germany. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Scandal Theatre, a company that creates theatre about social justice issues. Jessica graduated from Wesleyan University and trained at the Scuola Internazionale di Teatro in Rome before completing her MA at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.