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, making The King of Hell’s Palace by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig for 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. She is currently in edit with Lonely No More by Sebastian Baczkiewicz for Audiama, and The Lost Battalion by Iris Yamashita with Catherine Bailey Productions for the World Service. She also directed Supernova by Rhiannon Neads at the Vault Festival and Clapham Omnibus.
Productions (audio available)
Home Front* – WINNER – OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION – AUDIO DRAMA AWARDS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047qhc2
& Other Stories* by Katherine Mansfield adapted by Katie Hims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gynw
An Accident that wasn’t Your Fault* by Margaret Perry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmt7
Bleeder* by Ed Hime
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00vknkm
Clash* by Ellen Wilkinson, adapted by Sharon Oakes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000p725
Faith, Hope and Glory* by Roy Williams, Rex Obano, Winsome Pinnock
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s1rp
Five Wedding Dresses* by Katie Hims
A Fragile Peace* by Katie Hims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bl6ygt
Goblin Market* by Cristina Rossetti
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kwbs
Highlites* by Steve Chambers & Phil Nodding
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/HighLites-Series-1-6-Audiobook/1529143381
The Incomplete Recorded Works of a Dead Body
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007gbcr
Interrogation* by Roy Williams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0006q2q
Listening to the Dead* by Katie Hims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nv05z
Lost Property* – WINNER BEST DRAMA – AUDIO DRAMA AWARDS by Katie Hims
Luxembourg Gardens* by Katie Hims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lv6z
A Lightening* by Sarah Daniels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mjsvj
New Cycle of Mystery Plays* by Dawn King, Katie Hims, Frazer Flintham, Winsome Pinnock and Tom Wells
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pcr5q
Oak Tree Close* by Priyanga Burford, Maud Dromgoole, Sonia Jalaly, Hatty Jones, Max Levine, Joel MacCormack, Margaret Perry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tlvm
Pilgrim* – WINNER PRIX MARULIC SILVER, PRIX EUROPA SILVER by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071899b/episodes/guide
The Recruiting Officer* by George Farquhar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0185bdm
Romeo and Juliet* by William Shakespeare
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g4vv1
Scenes from a Zombie Apocalypse* by Katie Hims and Paul Elliott
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000sz2f
A Tale of Two Cities* – WINNER SONY BRONZE by Charles Dickens adapted by Mike Walker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018tvtk
Wasteland* by Ed Harris
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qm08
New Voices*
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
https://www.audible.co.uk/podcast/Audible-x-NT-New-Voices/B0CD83W4WJ
Productions (audio unavailable)
All the Blood in my Veins by Katie Hims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vy37d
Alone in the Garden with You by Louise Monahan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kblcq
Be Mine by Jackie Malton
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mqmkw
Beyond Words – Maeterlinck adapted by Katie Hims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g3v76
Big Broadcast by Neil Brand
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02f3yy7/p02f3xbm
Cinders by Ali Taylor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sdc14
The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien adapted by Lin Coghlan & Katie Hims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007q9y/episodes/guide
Danton’s Death by Georg Buchner adapted by Simon Scardifield
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yhrdl
Dewey Eyed by Sarah Lee
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jcgxc
Dombey and Son* by Charles Dickens adapted by Mike Walker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008dn4c
Dracula by Bram Stoker adapted by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04y9dfk
Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mm0l3
Eight Feet High and Rising by Ali Taylor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ft3fw
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kaestner adapted by Katie Hims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n6wfs
Escape from Gaza by Justin Butcher
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x9z7b
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy adapted by Graham White
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01n2sc0/episodes/guide
Far Pavilions by M M Kaye adapted by Rukhsana Ahmed & Lucy Catherine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00y37bm
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway adapted by Stephen Keyworth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012xpf8
First Do No Harm WINNER – ARIA SILVER by Al Smith
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002zqz
Glastonbury at 50 by Michael & Emily Eavis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08gpq4m
Glenvern Stories – a soap for the NHS
https://www.tandemproductions.uk/podcast-production-for-nhs-leadership-academy
Great North Run by Tom Wells
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000846d
Guardian Angel by Gill Adams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008w5ww
Jonesy by Tom Wells
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03w16g8
The Kiss by Katie Hims
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071c3p1
Lennon A Week in the Life by Ian la Frenais & Dick Clements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sg77z
Listen to the Words WINNER – BEST DRAMA – RADIO & MUSIC AWARDS by Ed Hime
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c197q
Love my Rifle More than You by Kayla Williams/Stephen Keyworth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009wcv8
My One and Only by Dawn King
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g65h1
Master Class by David Pownall
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h3wsb
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett adapted by Robin Brooks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010ns71
No Nightingales No Snakes by Maeve Binchy adapted by Sasha Hails & Jessica Dromgoole
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007nfwy
Obey the Wave by Ed Hime
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037v4fw
Old Peter’s Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome adapted by DJ Britten
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g2gqx
Our Liam of Lourdes by Alex Oates
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003d8k
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens adapted by Mike Walker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00npgh1
Paid Servant by E R Braithwaite
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f656m
Planet B by Matthew Broughton et al
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p6qq0
Plantagenet by Mike Walker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02qdx5s/episodes/guide
Porcelain by Margaret Perry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001rzz
Sarah and Ken by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00swq94
Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate adapted by DJ Britten
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t6frq
The Shores by Vinay Patel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b6fm
Silver Darlings by Tallulah Brown
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b6fm
Stuarts by Mike Walker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036f9v7
Suffer Little Children by Gabriele Kohl/Jessica Dromgoole
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kgt4
We are Mermaid by Frazer Flintham
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qqf76
We Outnumber You by Ed Hime
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s0ygj
The Yellowplush Papers by William M Thackeray, adapted by Stephen Wyatt