Jerrica D. White is a Brooklyn based, Ohio bred powerhouse, working to disrupt the way we tell stories in the American Theater, and more specifically, the way new plays get to the stage.
Jerrica examines the spectrum of Blackness with focus on family dynamics, relationships, love, mental health, and faith. Her work has been developed with the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Primary Stages, Workshop Theater, Ensemble Theater, and Cincinnati Black Theatre Artist Collective. As an author, she has been in Residence with Liberation Theatre Company in Harlem, Soho House, and the National Black Theatre Keep Soul Alive: Micro-development. As a director, she has worked on productions with New York Theater Workshop (Saturday Church - dir Whitney White), Baltimore Center Stage (Akeelah and the Bee), Urbanite Theatre (From 145th to 98th Street), The Public Theater (JORDANS - dir Whitney White), NBT (Black Mother Lost Daughter dir - Stevie Walker-Webb).
She believes freedom is won through vulnerability and works to give artists a sense of community and a platform to share their stories. To fulfill this mission she founded OVRZLOUS, a studio built to produce revues, reading series, and editorial content, provide strategy to creative teams, and to create community. In 2019, she was on the producing team of the Broadway revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.
With a background in design, strategy, tech sales, poetry, and music, Jerrica can't help but think outside of "the box." She is proud to bring her full self to her artistic practice.
Her work is a defense for living.
She desires for her community to feel seen, encouraged, and know they are not alone. Her sound is cycles of self love, healing, greater faith, and joy.
