Jessica Carmichael
Jessica Carmichael is an artist of mixed Abénaki/Euro heritage. She specializes in directing, acting, creation and dramaturgy. Jessica trained at the National Theatre School of Canada (Acting), the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art & King’s College London (MA Text & Performance Studies with Distinction), the University of Alberta (MFA Directing with Distinction) and the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction (Stratford Festival, 2014 & 2016). Recent select directing credits include Helen Edmundson’s The Clearing at the Shaw Festival of Canada (2023); Will Eno’s Middletown at the National Theatre School of Canada (2023); Embodying Power and Place: 4 audio works in response to the federal commission on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 2019 Report for Nightwood Theatre, Native Performing Arts and Harlem Productions (2021) and Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters at the Stratford Festival of Canada (2021). She was dramaturg for Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan's world premiere of 1939 at the Stratford Festival of Canada (2022). She will be directing Hamlet for Canadian Stage Theatre's Dream in High Park summer 2024. She is currently dramaturg of Todd Houseman’s epic immersive project Children of the Bear with Outside the March in Toronto.