Jessica is a director and producer of non-text based theatre. Her work is defined by its rich visual narratives and combination of multiple artforms including puppetry, physical performance and projected image. In 2004, Jessica completed five years as Artistic Director of Terrapin Puppet Theatre in Hobart where she created The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs which showcased in the 2004 Performing Arts Market Spotlight program, and Frankenstein which premiered in 2004 and performed at the Victorian Arts Centre in 2005 and the International Puppet Carnival in 2006.

In 2007 she creative produced and directed Dream Masons, a spectacle of enormous proportions on the facade of the Salamanca Arts Centre, for the opening of the Ten Days on the Island Festival in Hobart, and Dr Egg And The Man With No Ear, a puppetry and stop motion animation theatre work for the Sydney Opera House, the Victorian Arts Centre and the Perth Awesome Festival. She has directed many CCD projects including Material World an installation in Federation Square, and most recently Western Ring Cycle, for Big West Festival, a series of works in where audience view, from moving buses, performances by community in their front yards. Jessica was recipient of an Australia Council professional development grant to travel to the USA and Europe in 2003 which began her international collaboration with Redmoon's Jim Lasko, and in 1998 she studied with Philipe Genty.