Jessica Bauman

Jessica Bauman is a director and community-engaged theater maker based in Brooklyn, NY.

Together with Mexican director Ramón Verdugo, she co-created and co-directed “The Frontera Project,” an interactive, bilingual theater experience that uses theater, music, movement and play to actively engage the audience in a compassionate, often joyous conversation about life on the US/Mexico
Border.

“The Frontera Project” has been seen at theaters and universities across the US, and at Teatro Las Tablas in Tijuana, Mexico. Jessica adapted and directed “Arden/Everywhere,” a retelling of Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” as a refugee story which was produced Off-Broadway with a cast of both professionals and nonprofessionals from the refugee and immigrant communities in New York City.

As she developed that project, she worked with refugee communities in the US and at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. She is currently an Artist in Residence at University Settlement House, where she is creating a project about loneliness and connection.