Jess Pillmore is Co-Artistic Director and Teaching Artist for the revolutionary arts education company, Creatively Independent. She travels internationally 250+ days/year teaching students from 5 - 85 how to expand into their creatively independent selves.

Her professional work is an expansive mix of theater, dance, creative writing, knitwear design, music and stage combat (1999 National Best Female Actor/Combatant, 2000 Founder’s Award in Unarmed by SAFD). Her art has been seen Off-Broadway, television (E!, MTV), fringe theatre festivals (Best Musical City Girl!, dir./chor. Minnesota Fringe), regional theaters, schools and international conferences. Her latest collaboration with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s HitRECord premiered at 2012 Sundance Festival. She has released three music albums on RoadWorm Music as a singer/songwriter. Listen here. Jess is a published writer for national magazines GreenCraft and Stuffed! and a upcycled knitwear designer with A Second Chance.

Jess has trained with renown award-winning artists: Sam Mendes, Rob Marshall, Kathleen Marshall, Susan Schulman, Pilobolus, Momix and in 2012 was hand selected by bestselling author Seth Godin for his Impresario Intensive.

EDUCATION: Goddard College (MFA Interdisciplinary Arts ’13), FSU (BA Theatre ’97), DASOTA (Dance ‘93)

Jess Pillmore

Revolutionist @ Creatively Independent

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