Jessica Frances Dukes
By Wes Calkin
Jessica Frances Dukes has been seen at Woolly in Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies (The Second City), Bootycandy, In the Next Room, Full Circle, Eclipsed, Fever/Dream, Antebellum, Starving, and Zombie: The American. Her most recent work include King Hedley II and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at (Arena Stage) other DC credits include: The Conference of The Birds (Folger Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Olney Theatre); Passing Strange and Caroline, or Change (Studio Theatre); Trip to Bountiful and Permanent Collection (Round House); Jitney (Ford’s Theatre); Spunk (Tribute Productions, Helen Hayes nomination); The Bluest Eye and Insurrection: Holding History (Theater Alliance) and more. Regional credits include Beneatha’s Place and Clybourne Park (Centerstage); Stick Fly (Arden Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun and The Piano Lesson (Geva Theatre); The Piano Lesson (Indiana Rep); Trip to Bountiful (Cleveland Playhouse) and more. Off-Broadway credits include Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons). TV credits include The Good Wife (CBS) and A Raisin in the Sun Revisited (PBS). MFA from Catholic University of America.