Jessica Carmona

Teaching Artist

Jessica Carmona is an Award Winning Actress, Playwright, Lyricist/Librettist and Producer of Afro Puerto Rican descent. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she received her B.F.A in Acting. She is an alumni of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writers Workshop, Class of 2025. 

Jessica is a former Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Latino Theatre at CUNY LaGuardia Community College. She is Co-Librettist and Co-Lyricst on the new musical Olivia O The Musical, which was recently selected as a NAMT Recommended Musical.

Jessica has worked for 4 consecutive years with Brooklyn Children’s Theatre, creating original children’s musicals each summer. As an Actress, she appeared on CBS ‘s FBI Most Wanted across from Dylan McDermott , as well as “NBC New Amsterdam'' with Ryan Eggold. She starred as Rosie in the new play “Pecking Order” by Robin Rice, and as Zoe in “Black Mexican” by Rachel Lynette. She appeared as Odessa/Haikumom in “Water by the Spoonful” at the Red Monkey Theatre Group,  Antonio in “Twelfth Night” at the Red Monkey Theater Group, Samana in Platanos and Collard Greens, and Maddie in Nickeled and Dimed at Blackfriars Theater. She has also worked with Pregones/PRTT and R.Evolucion Latina on a production of The Tempest directed by Luis Salgado. 

Her indie film, “Millie and the Lords” won her the Best Film and Best Actress Award at The People’s Film Festival and the Viva Latino Film Festival as well as an Award for Film Excellence from the International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival. It was also featured at the Georgia Latino Film Festival, Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, Rochester Latino Film Festival and was most recently on HBO Latino and COMCAST. Her original play “Elvira-The Immigration Play” was nominated for Best Play at the 2019 Strawberry One Act Theatre Festival and featured at the 2015 NYC Fringe Festival. 

She is represented by Bonafide and Emerging Artists, LLC as well as Bramante Artists.