Jessica's Engagements for 2023-2024

Directing
AVENUE Q music/lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, book by Jeff Whitty. (November 2023). Performed at SUNY Sullivan's Seelig Theatre.

FUENTEOVEJUNA/THE SHEEP WELL by Lope de Vega (May 2024) Performed at SUNY Sullivan's Hope Farm.

ART by Yasmina Reza at River Repertory Theatre performed at the Delaware Valley Opera Center "The Nutshell" (May 2024)

Acting
Dream on the Farm Year 4 at Farm Arts Collective August 2023
A Night of One-Acts at Samba Café August 2023

Playwrighting/Adaptations
AND THE VIOLINS STOPPED PLAYING, by Alexander Ramati, adapted for the stage by Jessica López-Barkl (workshop production in progress)
CRISTINA AND FRIDA adapted from the novel FRIDA by Barbara Mujica
I'M NOT CRAZY adapted from the writings of an anonymous woman suffering from late-in-life schizophrenia

Research Paper
LOCKED UP: an exploration of a theater behind bars
Theater in a Generational Poverty Community College Before & During the Pandemic