Jessica Ruano

Contact: ruano.jessica@gmail.com

Jessica Ruano is a publicist, publicity consultant, arts journalist, photographer, drama coach, director, spoken word performer, and general arts enthusiast. This Canterbury Arts Graduate completed an undergraduate degree in English and Theatre at the University of Ottawa, and now studies in the new Masters program in Theatre Theory and Dramaturgy. She has been described as a [Droplet of Mercury] because of her inability to stay still and remain faithful to one art form.

Recent theatrical endeavours, include…

Feature Poet at the Voices of Venus series in the Umi Cafe

Brochure Writer for the National Arts Centre’s BC Scene

Directing the world premiere of George Elliott Clarke’s jazz opera Québécité as a spoken word piece at the 2006 Ottawa Fringe Festival

Arts Journalism with Guerilla Magazine, Capital Xtra, The Fulcrum, The Wellington Oracle, Ottawa At Home, Ottawa Focus, and the Ottawa XPress

Publicity for Artword Theatre (Toronto/Hamilton), Breathing Time Productions, the Capital Poetry Collective, Drama Guild, Eddie May Murder Mysteries, Repercussion Theatre (Montreal), the St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival (Prescott), and Third Wall Theatre Company

Stage Managing Jer’s Vision Gala at Barrymores Music Hall and Capital Music Hall

Volunteering with a Company of Fools, the Great Canadian Theatre Company, Odyssey Theatre, and the Ottawa Fringe Festival

Memorabilia

Ottawa Citizen Article: Ottawa is hardly ‘a dead city’ for culture

Ottawa Arts Newsletters: May 2006 to December 2008
All subsequent newsletters appear in the OTTAWA ARTS BLOG section

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