BIOGRAPHY
Jessalyn Gilsig
Jessalyn Gilsig's roles at the American Repertory Theater have included Mariane in Tartuffe and Miranda in The Tempest. Other Loeb Stage work included The Oresteia and understudy roles in Henry V and The Cherry Orchard. Ms. Gilsig is a graduate of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, where she appeared in The Trojan Women: A Love Story (under the direction of Robert Woodruff), Cymbaline (the Queen), Three Sisters (Masha), The House of Bernarda Alba (Magdalena), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia), and in Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and Jack, or the Submission. Other roles include Estelle in No Exit at the Morrice Theatre, Philomele in The Love of the Nightingale at Moyce Theatre, Hanna in A Shayna Maidel at Centaur Theatre, and Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Marina in Pericles at Repercussion's Shakespeare in the Park. Ms. Gilsig is a native of Montreal and a graduate of McGill University.