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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

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

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard (Columbia MFA Acting Thesis)
Lenfest Center for the Arts  at Columbia University
Dir. Devin Haqq
December 11 - 14, 2025

Henry VIII  by William Shakespeare
Schapiro Theatre at Columbia University
Dir. Katherine Wilkinson
February 11 - 14, 2026

Columbia MFA Acting Showcase
NYC (Schapiro Theatre): April 13 - 16, 2026
LA (Matrix Theatre): April 21, 2026
Stay Tuned

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