Jessica McRoberts is a director, performer, and theater professional with a career spanning more than three decades in the industry. She has worked extensively on Broadway and with National Tours, as well as at leading regional theaters across the country. As a performer, her Broadway credits include Follies, Nine, Sweet Charity, Sunset Boulevard, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Additional performance highlights include appearances as a Radio City Rockette, as well as performances at Carnegie Hall and New York City Center Encores!. Her professional experience also includes serving as an associate on numerous distinguished productions and contributing to a wide range of acclaimed theatrical projects across the American theater landscape. In recent years, Ms. McRoberts has focused her career on directing, drawing upon her extensive background as both a performer and collaborator to inform her storytelling. Her selected directing credits include The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown, tick, tick… BOOM!, The Rocky Horror Show, Hair, Matilda, A Christmas Story, 42nd Street, and Give My Regards to Broadway, a tribute concert honoring Maury Yeston. She is elated to direct Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown, a work whose emotional depth and musical language continue to inspire her artistic voice. Ms. McRoberts was a co-founder of Core Theatre Group and currently serves as the Associate Artistic Director at The Madison Theater. She is also a dedicated educator and has taught at STEPS on Broadway, The Atlantic Theatre Company, CAP21, Marymount Manhattan College, the Professional Performing Arts School, and The Horace Mann School. She thanks Jason Robert Brown for trusting her with his material and is honored to make her directorial debut at The York Theatre, dedicating this production to her daughter, Nova.