Playwright
bad eggs
Premiere Screening
March 13, 2022
Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre
ABOUT THE PLAY
A magical reimagining of the myth of Persephone.
Persephone and Hades have been trying to have a baby for nearly a year with no luck. Growing anxious, Persephone decides to see the fertility doctor, Eve, who also happens to be her mother. Problem is, Eve hasn’t spoken to her since she eloped with Hades, and Persephone has debilitating panic attacks whenever she tries to leave the house. Persephone must discover who she really is, aside from being a wife and daughter. Through a feminist and darkly comedic lens, bad eggs explores the parallels between two women who ate “forbidden fruit”.
Digital Release
March 16-27, 2022
CAST
Sarah Roa as Persephone
Raes Calvert as Hades
Lissa Neptuno as Eve
TEAM
Playwright/Producer - Jessica Hood
Producer - Rachelle Miguel
Director - Pedro Chamale
DP/Editor/Lighting Designer - Jessica Han
First AD - Teresa Leung
Set Designer - Kimira Reddy
Costume Designer - Emily Fraser
Composer/Sound Designer - Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi
Dialogue Editor/Colourist - Emily Robertson
Sound Editor - Brayden McCluskey
Animator - Emily Pickering
Camera Operators - Joseph Hirabayashi & Dan Loan
Head Gaffer - Jamie Sweeney
Sound Technician/Boom Operator - Fletcher Mussett
Follow Me/Tributaries
July 1-4, 2021
An interactive, build-your-own-adventure style theatrical journey created in collaboration with Rachelle Miguel, Pedro Chamale, and Howard Dai.
Your phone pings. It’s a text from an unknown number. “Are you ready?” You ask yourself the same question. “Yes”, you reply. Your phone lights up with directions, instructions, questions, messages, all leading you somewhere. Who is the person on the other end of the line? And where are they taking you? Only you can find out.
Collaborations for HIVE
Good Girls
presented by Presentation House Theatre
Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2019
A spooky micro-performance created in collaboration between unladylike co. and Aliya Griffin of The Troika Collective. Featuring Jessica Hood as the “good wife” who knows her place; Rachelle Miguel as the “good girl” at her first communion; and Aliya as the wild woman, reminding us to reject the patriarchy.
those whom fortune favours
Presented at the Magnetic North Festival
June 8, 2019
those whom fortune favours was a collaboration between with Rachelle Miguel and Sarah Roa. The devising process for this piece began with a meme which pictured Disney's Sleepy Beauty with the words "In the original text, Sleeping Beauty was not kissed awake by a prince, but raped by a king and woken by childbirth" written underneath.
bad eggs
a staged reading presented at rEvolver Festival
May 22, 2019
Persephone - Jessica Hood
Hades - Carlen Escarraga
Eve - Melissa Oei
Director - Jamie King
Stage Directions read by - Jess Amy Shead
“Congratulations, Jessica and company, for a beautiful reading of an exquisite and exciting new play. Thrilling, surprising, squirmy, funny, painful. I’m eager to see the full production. Wonderfully done, all.”
-- Stephen Aberle (audience member)
Oh Romeo, No Romeo
Selected for the NewMarket National 10-Minute Play Festival
July 27-29, 2018
Directed by Sean O’Brien
Oh Romeo, No Romeo is a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet's love story, where Romeo's love for Juliet is not only unrequited, but also unwanted. It follows Juliet as she attempts to report Romeo's crime, only to be met by relentless victim shaming.