Jessica was a freelance theatre director, working on new writing, and Literary Manager at Paines Plough Theatre Company, before joining the BBC to set up BBC writersroom. After stints producing Westway for the World Service and launching a drama series for BBC Urdu in Pakistan, Pyar ka Passport, Jessica was an Audio Drama Producer for 14 years and was editor of Home Front, the four-year WW1 daily drama on Radio 4.
Since leaving the BBC, outside of setting up Hooley, Jessica has worked freelance, makingThe King of Hell’s Palace by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhigfor Hampstead Theatre, ten plays by young writers for New Voices for the National Theatre and Audible, Glenvern Stories, a 34-episode drama for Tandem Productions and the NHS, Lonely No More by Sebastian Baczkiewicz for Audiama and Purple Heart Warriors WINNER – BEST FICTION PODCAST – 2025 ROCKIE AWARDS – by Iris Yamashita with Catherine Bailey Productions for BBC World Service. She also directed Supernova by Rhiannon Neads at the Vault Festival and Clapham Omnibus.
Productions (audio available)
Purple Heart Warriors – WINNER – BEST FICTION PODCAST – 2025 ROCKIE AWARDS – by Iris Yamashita with Catherine Bailey Productions for BBC World Service
Lonely No More by Sebastian Baczkiewicz for Audiama
Home Front* – WINNER – OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION – AUDIO DRAMA AWARDS
& Other Stories* by Katherine Mansfield adapted by Katie Hims
An Accident that wasn’t Your Fault* by Margaret Perry
Bleeder* by Ed Hime
Clash* by Ellen Wilkinson, adapted by Sharon Oakes
Faith, Hope and Glory* by Roy Williams, Rex Obano, Winsome Pinnock
Five Wedding Dresses* by Katie Hims
A Fragile Peace* by Katie Hims
Goblin Market* by Cristina Rossetti, adapted by Jessica Dromgoole
Highlites* by Steve Chambers & Phil Nodding
The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body* by Ed Hime
Interrogation* by Roy Williams
Listening to the Dead* by Katie Hims
Lost Property* – WINNER BEST DRAMA – AUDIO DRAMA AWARDS by Katie Hims
Luxembourg Gardens* by Katie Hims
A Lightening* by Sarah Daniels
New Cycle of Mystery Plays* by Dawn King, Katie Hims, Frazer Flintham, Winsome Pinnock and Tom Wells
Oak Tree Close* by Priyanga Burford, Maud Dromgoole, Sonia Jalaly, Hatty Jones, Max Levine, Joel MacCormack, Margaret Perry
Pilgrim* – WINNER PRIX MARULIC SILVER, PRIX EUROPA SILVER by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
The Recruiting Officer* by George Farquhar
Romeo and Juliet* by William Shakespeare
Scenes from a Zombie Apocalypse* by Katie Hims and Paul Elliott
A Tale of Two Cities* – WINNER SONY BRONZE by Charles Dickens adapted by Mike Walker
Wasteland* by Ed Harris
New Voices Series, National Theatre and Audible:
-Bus Stops by Mia Galanti
-Childhood, War and Love by Ellie Jayne Sharman
-Colour Inside the Lines by Jamila Salim
-If We Were Older by Alice Sparrow
-Perspective by Mackenzie Wellfare
-If Not Now, When? by Isabel Hague
-Ashes to Ashes, Assam to Oolong by Sol Alberman
-£39 by Rachel Lane
-Blue by Rae Webb
-Teapot Troubles by Loresa Leka
Productions (audio unavailable)
All the Blood in my Veins by Katie Hims
Alone in the Garden with You by Louise Monahan
Be Mine by Jackie Malton
Beyond Words – Maeterlinck adapted by Katie Hims
Big Broadcast by Neil Brand
Cinders by Ali Taylor
The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien adapted by Lin Coghlan & Katie Hims
Danton’s Death by Georg Buchner adapted by Simon Scardifield
Dewey Eyed by Sarah Lee
Dombey and Son* by Charles Dickens adapted by Mike Walker
Dracula by Bram Stoker adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe
Eight Feet High and Rising by Ali Taylor
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kaestner adapted by Katie Hims
Escape from Gaza by Justin Butcher
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy adapted by Graham White
Far Pavilions by M M Kaye adapted by Rukhsana Ahmed & Lucy Catherine
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway adapted by Stephen Keyworth
First Do No Harm WINNER – ARIA SILVER by Al Smith
Glastonbury at 50 by Michael & Emily Eavis
Glenvern Stories – a soap for the NHS
Great North Run by Tom Wells
Guardian Angel by Gill Adams
Jonesy by Tom Wells
The Kiss by Katie Hims
Lennon A Week in the Life by Ian la Frenais & Dick Clements
Listen to the Words WINNER – BEST DRAMA – RADIO & MUSIC AWARDS by Ed Hime
Love my Rifle More than You by Kayla Williams/Stephen Keyworth
My One and Only by Dawn King
Master Class by David Pownall
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett adapted by Robin Brooks
No Nightingales No Snakes by Maeve Binchy adapted by Sasha Hails & Jessica Dromgoole
Obey the Wave by Ed Hime
Old Peter’s Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome adapted by DJ Britten
Our Liam of Lourdes by Alex Oates
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Mike Walker
Paid Servant by E R Braithwaite
Planet B by Matthew Broughton et al
Plantagenet by Mike Walker
Porcelain by Margaret Perry
Sarah and Ken by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate adapted by DJ Britten
The Shores by Vinay Patel
Silver Darlings by Tallulah Brown
Stuarts by Mike Walker
Suffer Little Children by Gabriele Kohl/Jessica Dromgoole
We are Mermaid by Frazer Flintham
We Outnumber You by Ed Hime
The Yellowplush Papers by William M Thackeray, adapted by Stephen Wyatt