Jesse Alana Robkin

Jesse Alana Robkin is a Chicago playwright, dramaturg, and teaching artist originally from the Pacific Northwest. She is a graduate of the University of Evansville (B.A. – Theatre Studies) and a two-time alum of Jackalope Theatre Company’s Playwrights Lab with Calamity West, where she first developed AUSTIN’S HOME. Jesse’s other full-length works GRAVES GROW NO GREEN and THE CHAIN. She teaches playwriting workshops around Chicago and is a passionate advocate for transgender representation in theatre (and everywhere).