Jesca Prudencio
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      • OUR TOWN
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      • How To Use A Knife
      • Bondage
      • The Venetian Twins
      • How To Use A Knife
      • Mobile Happiness Bazaar
      • Borealis
      • Venus
      • Campo Maldito
      • Black Boy & The War
      • The Girl in the Park
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      • CALLING
      • A&Q
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      • Nothing Matters
      • It's a Ship Show!
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    • Musicals >
      • MISSING PEACE
      • INTERSTATE (Mixed Blood)
      • The Firebird
    • Plays >
      • BALD SISTERS
      • KING LIZ
      • EXPORT QUALITY
      • THE GREAT LEAP
      • OUR TOWN
      • MAN OF GOD
      • ACTUALLY
      • VIETGONE
      • How To Use A Knife
      • Bondage
      • The Venetian Twins
      • How To Use A Knife
      • Mobile Happiness Bazaar
      • Borealis
      • Venus
      • Campo Maldito
      • Black Boy & The War
      • The Girl in the Park
    • Documentary Theatre >
      • PDA
      • CALLING
      • NOHING
      • CALLING
      • A&Q
      • FAN
      • Listen to Me
    • Dance Theatre & Choreo >
      • Can We Now?
      • We Walk, We Stop
      • Nothing Matters
      • It's a Ship Show!
    • Film >
      • American Quartet
    • Media
  • Press
  • Workshops
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Representation:

Di Glazer
CAA
(212) 556-6662
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DGlazer@icmpartners.com
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Jesca Prudencio is a director, choreographer, and community based artist. She is dedicated to developing new theatrical works that humanize issues and explore the tension between cultures. She focuses on new plays, musicals, film, and dance theater  in New York, regionally, and internationally. Jesca has developed new work at The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, East West Players, The Lark, NAMT, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Space on Ryder Farm, La MaMa, Joe's Pub, and The Movement Theatre Company.

Jesca is the recipient of several fellowships including being the inaugural recipient of The Julie Taymor World Theater Fellowship which supported her travels through Thailand, Japan, and The Philippines throughout 2017 as she researched and trained in traditional and contemporary forms of theater in each country. She was recently named a 2021 Woman To Watch on Broadway by the Broadway Women's Fund. 
 
She has a passion for pushing boundaries to what theatre can be by experimenting in documentary theatre, performance art, and immersive theatre. Her 2019 production A&Q: a documentary theater performance shed light on people who are directly affected by the war on drugs in the Philippines, and their 2018 piece Nohing used dozens of stories and portraits of women and femme-identifying individuals around sexual assault in public spaces. She directed and choreographed  PDA as part of the 2019 La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival, exploring the relationships of three real couples and how they love out loud. Jesca is currently developing an immersive happening for Virgin Voyages newest cruise ship The Resilient Lady.  

As an educator, she has taught workshops and courses at numerous universities and institutions across the U.S. and Asia. Jesca was the former Education Director at Ping Chong + Company, where she worked as a writer, director, and associate on a dozen interdisciplinary and documentary theater projects across the U.S., including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, BAM, and The Smithsonian. Jesca is currently on faculty as Head of Directing at San Diego State University.  She holds a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch, and an MFA in Directing from UC San Diego.  

When she's not making theater, she's probably training in Muay Thai Kickboxing, dancing bachata,  or cooking up a big Filipino meal. 
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WORK SAMPLES
ALL RECENT WORK AT A GLANCE . . .'
  • KING LIZ by Fernanda Coppel - Geffen Playhouse
  • INTERSTATE by Kit Yan and Melissa Li - East West Players
  • EXOTIC DEADLY by Keiko Green (reading) - Powers New Voices Festival at The Old Globe
  • CREATRILOGY: The Musical by Keelay Gipson and Sam Salmond, based on the books by Peter H. Reynolds (reading) - TheatreWorksUSA
  • EXPORT QUALITY by Carolyn Antonio, Erica Miguel, and Dorotea Mendoza (workshop) - The Brick in association with Loose Change Productions
  • INTERSTATE by Kit Yan and Melissa Li (workshop) - MCC Theater SongLab
  • THE BUTTERFLY OF CHULA VISTA by Giovanni Ortega - Hear U.S. Now New Play Festival, San Diego Rep
  • MISSING PEACE by Kyle Puccia and Kalani Queypo - NAMT
  • HEARTSTRINGS by Lee Cataluna (reading) - Atlantic for Kids, Atlantic Theater Company
  • CAN WE NOW? an original dance theatre work by Jesca Prudencio - La Jolla Playhouse
  • INTERSTATE by Kit Yan and Melissa Li (workshop) - New York Stage and Film
  • MOTHER OF EXILES by Jessica Huang (reading) - Two River Theatre
  • THIS IS NOT WHAT I EXPECTED WHEN I IMAGINED A REPUBLIC by Daria Miyeko Marinelli (workshop) - Playwrights Realm
  • UNREMARKABLE! (concert special) - Musical Theatre Factory
  • AMERICAN QUARTET (short film) - Filmelodic
  • MOTHER OF EXILES by Jessica Huang (virtual reading) - Playwrights' Center
  • ZOOMERLANDIA by Diana Burbano - San Diego Rep
  • THE INTERVIEW by Ekaterina Avgustenyak - Arena Stage
  • INTERSTATE by Kit Yan and Melissa Li (world premiere production) - Mixed Blood Theatre, MN
  • UNTITLED COMMISSION by Anna Moench (development workshop) - Magic Theatre Virgin Play Festival, SF 
  • GO by Vichet Chum (reading) - Magic Theatre Virgin Play Festival, SF 
  • EXPORT QUALITY (development workshop) - Loose Change Productions, NYC 
  • SOMETHING UNDER THE BALETE TREE by Ren Dara Santiago (reading) - The Lark, NYC 
  • PDA (production) - La Jolla Playhouse's WoW Festival, San Diego
  • ACTUALLY by Anna Ziegler (production) - San Diego State University
  • INTERSTATE by Kit Yan & Melissa Li (showcase reading) - Dramatist Guild Foundation
  • INTERSTATE by Kit Yan & Melissa Li  (reading) - National Alliance for Musical Theatre, NYC
  • INTERSTATE (reading) - Musical Theatre Factory, NYC
  • THE GREAT LEAP (production) - Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago
  • A&Q (production) - Pineapple Lab, Manila, Philippines
  • CALLING (production) - La MaMa, NYC 
  • DIVERSITY AWARENESS PICNIC by Leah Nanako Winkler (reading) - Cygnet Theatre, San Diego
  • MAN OF GOD by Anna Moench (production) - East West Players, LA 
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