Jesse Bliss is a playwright, poet, director, producer, actress and veteran arts educator. Her plays have been produced in the United Nations, Edinburgh Festival, Occidental College, SPARC, UCLA, among others. She has taught/teaches with Center Theatre Group, Geffen Playhouse, Skirball Cultural Center and Inner-City Arts to name a few. Her graphic book and Companion Manuel created for incarcerated girls,  I LOVE MYSELF GOLDEN, is available in stores statewide. She is Producer of KPFK’s THINK OUTSIDE THE CAGE and Founder and Executive Director of The Roots and Wings Project, a project-based theatre company with a mission to provide stage and space for voices of the unnamed, unspoken and misunderstood.