Jessie Kenner Tidball is a Nebraska-born multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She has been described as “a natural clown” and as posessing a “let me have it” quality. Jessie has been a frequent collaborator with the group Nightdrive, is a former intern with Elevator Repair Service, and has served as a performer, design assistant, and co-conspirator to various NYC downtown theater artists for over 10 years. Jessie was a performer for the Mercury Store’s 2023 directing intensive. And in June of 2022, she reprised a performance in Jim Findlay’s Vine of the Dead, as part of RIMI/IMIR’s inaugural (O)utpost festival in Flørli, Norway. She received her BFA in Theater from the Johnny Carson School of theater and Film. And has studied at HB studio and the Atlantic. She has also studied Meisner under the tutelage of Louis Lasser.