Jessica Stone is an accomplished theater actress in New York and has been performing in plays on and off Broadway for the last 20 years. Her Broadway credits include "Anything Goes" with Sutton Foster, "Butley" with Nathan Lane, "The Odd Couple" with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, "Smell of the Kill" with Claudia Shear, "Design For Living" with Alan Cumming and Dominic West, "How to Succeed..." with John Stamos and "Grease" with Rosie O'Donnell. Off-Broadway credits: "Crimes of the Heart" directed by Kathleen Turner, "Krisit", "The Country Club", "June Moon", "Tenderloin" and "Babes in Arms". She has performed in Regional Theaters all over the country including the Huntington Theater Company, Mark Taper Forum, GeVa, the McCarter, and six seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Favorite productions include "She Stoops to Conquer", "She Loves Me", "Springtime For Henry", "Betty's Summer Vacation", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Cherry Orchard". Jessica is particularly excited to be the voice of "Mrs. Sparklenose", a new character on Sesame Street (1969), that made her debut in the fall of 2009. Not only has Jessica worked with some of the finest directors working in the theater today including Joe Mantello, Michael Greif, and Nicholas Martin but she has begun a directing career as well. She directed an all-male production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and a revival of Neil Simon's 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers" at the Williamstown Theater Festival, both to critical acclaim.
