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Jesse cares deeply about the color red, Bruce Springsteen, woodworking, hagiography, Portuguese grilled chicken, Beckett, Twin Peaks, papal history, the episode in season five of Girls when Jessa and Adam go to Coney Island and they're both wearing green, Augustinian friars and Carthusian monks, When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, Água Viva by Clarice Lispector, Ibsen, dance by Teaċ Daṁsa, Pinter, techno and folk, Phantom ThreadThe Two Popes, em dashes — and ellipses, the theatre of Complicite, Welcome to Nightvale, dance by Batsheva, dance by Sharon Eyal, The Children by Lucy Kirkwood, Le pupille by Alice Rohrwacher, tiny children's wristwatches, Robert Wilson, dance by Crystal Pite, Nomadland, the Algarve, perfume that smells like honey, Vampire Weekend, Laurence Olivier, Irish concertina music, the paintings of Hopper and de Chirico, and stuffed animals...

He is an enthusiast of gaga dance class, Iyengar yoga, and learning to stress himself out less.

He expects to one day care deeply about wood lathes, baseball, playing in grass, playing it as it lays, becoming fluent in Esperanto, and vegetarianism.​​​

upcoming

A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Flea,
Dir. Dylan Diehl, with the Ensemble Shakespeare Company
July 16 - 27, 2025

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill at the Lenfest Center for the Arts  at Columbia University,
Dir. Talia Feldberg
September 18 - 21, 2025

Columbia MFA Acting Thesis, Fall 2025
More Soon

Columbia MFA Third-Year Shakespeare, Spring 2026
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Columbia MFA Showcase, Spring 2026
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